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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Robbin's Nest - Robbin Whachell
Finding Blue Mountain Park was a delight in itself as it’s a beautiful park with solid old trees, concrete art sculptures and the only veteran memorial cenotaph in the City. What a delight to see the poppies first hand and although I came late, a couple City workers were still on site and I was able to paint my own poppy. I was moved by the notes that school children and others placed upon yellow ribbons tied to the many trees along the park on Porter Street. Poppies were also planted by school children. Today there will be a memorial ceremony to remember those that died for our country.
It makes me proud that the famous poem, “In Flanders Field” was
written by a Canadian. It has a haunting sound when spoken or read and
brings back childhood memories of reading it each year in school.
In Flanders fields the poppies grow,
We are the Dead. Short days ago
Take up our quarrel with the foe: “In Flanders Fields” was written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. “In Flanders Fields” was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch. – Wikipedia See more photos from my visit HERE
Watch a video that the City of Coquitlam put out on the project HERE
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