Lest We Forget ...

I took the Family to the Alberta Legislature tonight to see the Vigil: 1914-1918 exhibit.

We will remember them.

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Can You Remember?

By Edmund Blunden. January, 1936.

Yes, I still remember

The whole thing in a way;

Edge and exactitude

Depend on the day.

Of all that prodigious scene

There seems scanty loss,

Though mists mainly float and screen

Canal, spire and fosse;

Though commonly I fail to name

That once obvious Hill,

And where we went and whence we came

To be killed, or kill.

Those mists are spiritual

And luminous-obscure,

Evolved of countless circumstance

Of which I am sure;

Of which, at the instance

Of sound, smell, change and stir,

New-old shapes for ever

Intensely recur.

And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,

Young, heroic, mild;

And some incurable, twisted,

Shrieking, dumb, defiled.