Belated Remembrance Day Post:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

Valour Road

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Another Remembrance Day Post.

A recreation but I think it captures the confusion and bloody mayhem of war.

And the courage.

Passchendaele Movie - 2006 Teaser Trailer

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The battle was 90 years ago this month. It was a victory that cost 5,000 casualties, fought in mud so deep it swallowed horse, against machine guns housed in concrete bunkers and yet the Canadians achieved all their objectives, at the exact cost in men predicted by their commander General Arthur Currie. Currie estimated that the Canadian forces would suffer 16,000 casualties in the taking of Passchendaele, an estimation that turned out to be accurate (the Canadian forces suffered 15,654 casualties).

The movie is due out next year.