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1196783 2011-04-24 23:19:00 As matter of respect for the fallen, Monday Laughs will not appear until tomorrow. I'm sure you won't mind waiting and I'll try to make it worth your while.

Billy
Billy T (70)
1196784 2011-04-25 00:20:00 As matter of respect for the fallen, Monday Laughs will not appear until tomorrow. I'm sure you won't mind waiting and I'll try to make it worth your while.

Billy

Excellent idea!!!

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
1196785 2011-04-25 00:37:00 Here is a poem written on crete that my father had. Written by some one he knew there.



Memories of Crete

By G.R.Eldridge


On A moutainous little island,
Nestled in the Aegean Sea,
By the dromes of Retimo,
At Heraklion and Meleme,
Are the graves of our fellow comrades,
In dozens there they lie,
Their death was the kind that only Gallant Soldiers die.

On that mountainous little island,
With its peaks all capped with snow,
With its groves of olive trees,
And grape vines row on row,
From the ocean wreathed with white caps,
To the mountains wreathed the same,
Are the fields where they fought so bravely,
They, who carried the Anzac's name.

And we who were there, remember
Those days of hell on Crete.
And we hope that when our time comes,
Those pals again we'll meet
As we trudge along the road
Of life that is left to be
Our thoughts will often turn to them
Who sleep, 'neath the olive tree.
mikebartnz (21)
1196786 2011-04-25 00:56:00 A very nice poem. Thanks. Pato (2463)
1196787 2011-04-25 06:45:00 Shades Of Memory

Beyond they lie, the silent shades of war
The young, the many, downed before their years
'Twas ours the freedom dearly bargained for
They gave their lives; we've naught to give but tears

In battle fallen, taken far from home
No dawning bugler's strain across a town
Nor round of flowers 'neath symbolic stone
The greatest wreath the one laid six feet down

Now long removed from distant times of strife
We mark our days with current unimport
But lest the years should claim another life
Do not forget the souls that war stopped short

At ANZAC dawn we gather to recall
The price of freedom, paid by those who fall
Erayd (23)
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