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Memorial Day, 2012: The Red Poppy

By Rob Spinosa

Mortgage and Lending with US Bank NMLS: 22343

May 25, 2012 11:07 PM

We Shall Keep the Faith

Oh! You who sleep in Flanders' fields,

Sleep sweet --- to rise anew;

We caught the torch you threw;

And holding high we kept

The faith with those who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red

That grows on fields where valor led.

It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies,

But lends a luster to the red

Of the flower that blooms above the dead

In Flanders' fields.

And now the torch and poppy red

Wear in honor of our dead

Fear not that ye have died for naught

We've learned the lessons that ye taught

In Flanders' fields.

~Moira Bell Michael

Robert J. Spinosa

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Liz Wallace

Century 21 Sherlock Homes - Rockville Centre, NY

Broker C21 Sherlock Homes, Rockville Centre, LI, N

This is a beautiful poem and I have not seen it in a long time. I always buy the poppy's when I see the veterans selling them.

May 26, 2012 12:27 AM

Daniel J. Brudnok, REALTOR

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox & Roach, REALTORS - Exton - PA License #RS-225179-L / Delaware License #RS-0025038 - Downingtown, PA

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Rob,

Well said, we should never forget.....we have because they gave!

May 26, 2012 12:28 AM

Michael Jacobs

Pasadena, CA

Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hi Rob -- thanks for sharing this poem in honor of those who are serving and have served.

May 26, 2012 10:19 AM

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