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MaryMagdaline

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13. Sad and true

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #9)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:13 PM

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In Flanders Fields [View all] elleng Nov 2018 OP

Fitting empedocles Nov 2018 #1

k and r nt Stuart G Nov 2018 #2

That's great, poignant, sort of like the song "Danny Boy"... brush Nov 2018 #3

Dear to every MFM008 Nov 2018 #6

I'm not Irish but I love to hear a real Irish tenor sing it. brush Nov 2018 #7

I love this, so timely. babylonsister Nov 2018 #4

my Aunt presented the first poppy handmade34 Nov 2018 #5

WOW! elleng Nov 2018 #10

few mistakes, but none serious handmade34 Nov 2018 #14

I remember selling those poppies when I was a child. pazzyanne Nov 2018 #19

how exciting that must have been JI7 Nov 2018 #15

My mom always bought poppies Ilsa Nov 2018 #16

they used to be so nice handmade34 Nov 2018 #17

Very special Raine Nov 2018 #42

. dalton99a Nov 2018 #8

And there's Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2018 #9

Thanks for this. elleng Nov 2018 #11

Sad and true MaryMagdaline Nov 2018 #13

Indeed, thank you for posting this GeoWilliam750 Nov 2018 #24

My, my. That's a new one on me. dchill Nov 2018 #41

We didn't get there while at Iper (Ypres)....only Flanders American. Historic NY Nov 2018 #12

And for our fearless leader ornotna Nov 2018 #18

A generation of young men butchered; a generation of young women left behind... Hekate Nov 2018 #20

Vera Brittain also wrote "Testament of Youth" about her experiences of smirkymonkey Nov 2018 #48

"Take up our quarrel with the foe!" - puke crazytown Nov 2018 #21

It was a different time, and Britain had a different culture then, a PatrickforO Nov 2018 #23

I've updated my post crazytown Nov 2018 #28

Yeah, all those fanatic British, Canadians, French and Americans GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #33

That is not my quarrel with McCrae crazytown Nov 2018 #36

So all the soldiers who fight like hell GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #37

You've got me wrong. crazytown Nov 2018 #38

Perhaps you should think of it as intended. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #39

It is what it is crazytown Nov 2018 #40

"For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain, dflprincess Nov 2018 #22

"A whole generation that was butchered and damned" says one line. nt Hekate Nov 2018 #30

I tear up every time I read "In Flanders Fields" NastyRiffraff Nov 2018 #25

Do you? crazytown Nov 2018 #32

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen LudwigPastorius Nov 2018 #26

A DISGUSTING POEM WRITTEN BY A FANATIC crazytown Nov 2018 #27

Do you suppose you could say this without shouting at us -- preferably in another thread? Hekate Nov 2018 #29

Not on 100th anniversary no. crazytown Nov 2018 #34

And for the widows of that war there is "Dancing At Whitsun" FailureToCommunicate Nov 2018 #31

Memorial Rain, by Archibald MacLeish... Hekate Nov 2018 #35

My son's men's choruses have sung that numerous times. Pacifist Patriot Nov 2018 #43

I guy I knew wrote an iconic song about WWI. It's been recorded by a dozen others at least. DFW Nov 2018 #44

Amazing. Did you ever get to meet the Irish songman Tommy Sands? Hekate Nov 2018 #45

I saw him perform at a Communist Party festival in the 1970s in Germany DFW Nov 2018 #46

That wouldn't be my cup of tea either. When I read that in his book I mostly filtered it thru ... Hekate Nov 2018 #47

We were always able to go to East Berlin for the day DFW Nov 2018 #49

That sounds just as chilling as its reputation was in those days... Hekate Nov 2018 #50

The situation in Paradise even made the German evening news here. DFW Nov 2018 #51

"i'm singing in the rain"... brooklynite Nov 2018 #52