For The Fallen (6 June 1944)

[DEEJAYKEG]

For The Fallen, a poem by Laurence Binyon.

 

With proud thanksgiving,
a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.

There is music in the midst of desolation

And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,

Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,

To the innermost heart of their own land they are known

As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,

Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,

As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,

To the end, to the end, they remain.

 

[loaderXI]

On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway is underway

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_midway.htm

The Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, must be considered one of the most decisive battles of World War Two. The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle.

 

 

On this day in 1944, The Allied invasion of France, commonly known as “D-Day” begins as Guardsmen from the 29th Infantry Division (Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia ) storm onto what will forever after be known as “bloody Omaha” Beach...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dbXyeyMa4

 

 

God Bless all those who surrendered themselves in the name of Freedom !

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