Comments on Chick With A Quill: A Few More Tombs

I wish I were, Miladysa, but, no, I'm back in Mont...

2009-09-04T08:41:59.563-03:00

I wish I were, Miladysa, but, no, I'm back in Montreal... and also in this dark place devoid of inspiration and any kind of incentive...

Vanilla, I didn't know. Facinating!
xoxoxo

A fascinating and poignant post, dear Vesper. Did ...

2009-09-04T04:28:53.090-03:00

A fascinating and poignant post, dear Vesper.
Did you know that in the Channel Islands, the Queen of England is also known as the Duke of Normandy as her official title there? :-)
xxx

Are you still in France?

2009-09-03T14:59:09.139-03:00

Are you still in France?

Jason, I posted this with you in mind. I’m glad th...

2009-09-01T08:15:42.647-03:00

Jason, I posted this with you in mind. I’m glad that you found it interesting.

Thank you, Bernard.

Rick, thank you for your very kind words and for the info on the new anthology. That is very interesting.

Thank you, Miladysa!

Yes, LW, all are equal in the end.

It’s good to have you here, Little Girl. Thank you for your kind words.

Shasha, that’s a good thing…

this reminds me it is our national heroes day toda...

2009-08-31T03:31:01.296-03:00

this reminds me it is our national heroes day today in my country...

very very fascinating, vesper... and such lovely p...

2009-08-26T09:23:47.511-03:00

very very fascinating, vesper... and such lovely pictures...
its so good to be back here...

i'm with mark and karen though honors are bequeat...

2009-08-23T21:45:30.803-03:00

i'm with mark and karen

though honors are bequeathed on the high and the low, all reduced to dust at the end...

Excellent post Vesper - thank you :)

2009-08-22T15:01:41.018-03:00

Excellent post Vesper - thank you :)

Yes, here I am again. You might want to drop over...

2009-08-21T16:57:23.738-03:00

Yes, here I am again. You might want to drop over to publisher William Jones' blog at: http://williamsramblings.blogspot.com/ because he has a new anthology call out. It's dark fiction, etc., and a follow-up anthology to High Seas Cthulhu.

What a marvelously sensitive tour and such beautif...

2009-08-21T00:50:25.014-03:00

What a marvelously sensitive tour and such beautiful photos, Vesper. I can't wait for more of the same!

Very touching tour with an extraordinary ending. I...

2009-08-20T15:41:52.012-03:00

Very touching tour with an extraordinary ending. Indeed... they were kings.

Thank you again! Napoleon's internment is fascina...

2009-08-20T10:24:56.440-03:00

Thank you again! Napoleon's internment is fascinating. Like a Russian nesting doll.

Mark, leaders of old I think of them because I lov...

2009-08-20T08:58:14.705-03:00

Mark, leaders of old I think of them because I love history, a certain part of it, anyway… But graves of soldiers, known or unknown, elicit a completely other kind of emotion…

Karen, I felt that lump in the throat in every church I entered, because in everyone there was a tribute to those lost in the Great War. The poem is beautiful and I thank you for posting it here.

I'm with TWM on this, except I do love to see the ...

2009-08-20T06:56:44.125-03:00

I'm with TWM on this, except I do love to see the beautiful tributes paid to those gone before -- but when I come to this picture, it is like a punch in the gut. It certainly is a lump in the throat, and that's not cliche; it's true. For the same reason, In Flanders Fields, a poem written by a serviceman of WWI, has always been one of my favorite poems. I hope you don't mind that I'm posting it here:

In Flanders Fields

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 (1872 - 1918)

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...men of peace bent on wresting freedom from the ...

2009-08-20T06:39:43.739-03:00

...men of peace bent on wresting freedom from the hands of tyrants. I am always given pause when I see the rows and rows and rows of any nations soldiers who died in a real battle for freedom.

I can walk past the tombs and sarcophagi of the leaders and not even think of them. But the graves of heroes always gives me pause.