Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A Selection of Remembrance Day Media

Not having posted for a while (being reading break and having quite a lot of reading to do!  Four essays really gets you down…) I’ve decided to share some remembrance day poems that I enjoy.

Lest we forget.

 

A Wish


Maybe it is pointless
To wish for lasting peace
For all mankind to lay down arms
For all fighting to cease


I could despair of seeing
Peace throughout the land
No longer hearing talk of war
Blood mixed with desert sand


We do not have the tolerance
For cultures not our own
Seeds fly on an ill wind
From beds where they are sown


Hope lies in a child's heart
Not yet turned to stone
A mind free of prejudice
A child not alone


If all children of the world
Held each others hand
They could do what we could not
Make a Brotherhood of Man.

Maxine Kendall

 

 

Legion Legacies Website : http://www.legionlegacies.org/content/education

 

 

2005 Year of the Veteran Poster Series

  

 

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