Since I inadvertently posted my Friday flowers post on Friday New Zealand time, I’ll take this opportunity to share a wonderful Veteran’s Day display, the Healing Field of Honor, in Naperville. I was fortunate because, due to the weather, the flags weren’t taken down the day after Veteran’s Day and now I can share it with you as well.
Memorial Day, whenever celebrated, whatever called, is a day we should welcome, lest we forget those who fought and died for the freedoms we enjoy. Here’s something I wrote for a previous Memorial Day.
Above us
“In Flanders field the poppies blow…”
And grow, too
(as well they should
given our bones and flesh and blood
gone to fertilizer)
gone to grow
not peace
but yet more war
another layer of human fertilizer
above us
When will they ever learn?
No doubt
never
“Man” being what he is
But there are things worth fighting for
and so we gave our all
(and cheered those left behind
to live and grow
above us)
This, that and the other thing 