NaBloPoMo: In Flanders Fields

On this day in 1918, Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ended at 11:00 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). The war officially ended on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

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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.

~~~ Lt. Col. John McCrae

A stunning sea of red poppies remember the fallen at the Tower of London: http://t.co/TvXBpFIT23 #ArmisticeDay pic.twitter.com/KyeimOpzCi
— CNN (@CNN) November 11, 2014