Rememberance Day
Men clawing out their faces in fear,
The time they started to succumb was near.
They fought, they fell,
Every time there was a gunshot, the whistling of a shell.
Explosions rained around them, but when the gunshots stopped,
Knives took their places, they sliced, they chopped.
Blood was always shed,
Too many were always dead
On both sides, good men fought,
But their sacrifice was not for naught.
Today is the day where we remember,
The times these men kept moving, every member
Of our great country, who never gave up, who fought for our freedom, who fought for us,
We take a moment on this day to be silent and hush.
The games we play make war look well,
but in truth it is a glimpse into hell.
Never shall we forget, for at least once a year,
We stop to recall what these men did without fear.
On Rememberance Day.
Men clawing out their faces in fear,
The time they started to succumb was near.
They fought, they fell,
Every time there was a gunshot, the whistling of a shell.
Explosions rained around them, but when the gunshots stopped,
Knives took their places, they sliced, they chopped.
Blood was always shed,
Too many were always dead
On both sides, good men fought,
But their sacrifice was not for naught.
Today is the day where we remember,
The times these men kept moving, every member
Of our great country, who never gave up, who fought for our freedom, who fought for us,
We take a moment on this day to be silent and hush.
The games we play make war look well,
but in truth it is a glimpse into hell.
Never shall we forget, for at least once a year,
We stop to recall what these men did without fear.
On Rememberance Day.
*Dedicated to the Canandian soldiers who:
Stood against the chlorine gas in Ypres, when the trained soldiers of France fled.
Who earned our division the name 'Shock Trooper' by the Germans, who feared them more than the Americans in Somme.
To those in Vimy Ridge, who did the impossible-Took Vimy in days, which even the combined might of France and Britain could not do in months.
To those who proved our hardiness in the bloody, mud-pit of Passhendale.
To all the men and women who fought in WWI.
Stood against the chlorine gas in Ypres, when the trained soldiers of France fled.
Who earned our division the name 'Shock Trooper' by the Germans, who feared them more than the Americans in Somme.
To those in Vimy Ridge, who did the impossible-Took Vimy in days, which even the combined might of France and Britain could not do in months.
To those who proved our hardiness in the bloody, mud-pit of Passhendale.
To all the men and women who fought in WWI.
To the Canadians who fought against the evils of Adolf Hitler who used the Germans in a moment of weakness to do his bidding in WWII.
*Note: I do not mean to offend anyone. It is simply a dedication, to prove why I am proud to be Canadian. You may feel that America won the war for us in WWI, but in truth they came at the last month AFTER We turned the tide in Vimy Ridge and the Germans started losing.
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