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lest We Forget
Apr. 25th, 2007 11:05 amNo, I haven't died, more on that later.
Watching the various services on the TV this morning, I've decided that my pilgrimage will not include Gallipoli, but instead I will make my journey to Ypres and see the Menin Gate, the Belgians have what I consider to be the most moving of all services, and they do this daily, most of Australia may have forgotten that more people died at Ypres and surrounding areas, but I haven't.
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This picture is one of the most haunting I have ever seen, it's painted in shades of blue, and in the foreground you can see the ghostly figures of the dead soldiers streaming through the Menin Gate, painted in 1927.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Watching the various services on the TV this morning, I've decided that my pilgrimage will not include Gallipoli, but instead I will make my journey to Ypres and see the Menin Gate, the Belgians have what I consider to be the most moving of all services, and they do this daily, most of Australia may have forgotten that more people died at Ypres and surrounding areas, but I haven't.
. This picture is one of the most haunting I have ever seen, it's painted in shades of blue, and in the foreground you can see the ghostly figures of the dead soldiers streaming through the Menin Gate, painted in 1927.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
