Happy Memorial Day 2010!I never served, but by name I am very much connected. My uncle, 2nd Lieutenant 390 AAF Bomb GP, Leonard Albert Gallant, was lost over Germany April 12, 1944 in the Good War. I never met him, but I carry on his memory with my middle name. And as I've written before, my first name is derived from a general my Dad served under near Anzio. The poem is, of course, the quite famous "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army.
Happy Memorial Day to you and your family! Thanks for sharing your uncle's story and photo!
ReplyDeleteI still have the letters he wrote home to his parents from overseas during the war. He was such a loving son. Gone too soon.
ReplyDeleteHappy Memorial Day, Uncle Buster!
I know I have seen this poem before but seeing it written out in the authors hand makes it even more poignant. I just read it aloud to my wife and she reminded me that it is from this poem that we get the tradition of the poppies for veterans.
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