Here is an awesome tribute to those that died in World War 1, which ended 100 years ago this Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day (November 11)–in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the year 1918.
There is great debate about how many people died in this war, but most estimates put the numbers at over 8 million soldiers and nearly 30 million total souls wiped from the face of the earth. Just imagine–30 MILLION people dead in the war that was to end all wars. Many of the war dead weren’t much older than some of the young boys in the accompanying video.
Countless soldiers are buried in cemeteries in that part of Belgium known as Flanders Fields. There you will see thousands of white marble crosses in neat rows, accented by tens of thousands of red poppies in season. And memorials with the names of hundreds of thousands of missing soldiers.
Please click on the video below, and watch and listen to the beautiful and touching tribute to those who died in this violent conflict. The song is “We Are the Lost,” based on the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. The poem was inspired by his service during the Second Battle of Ypres.
You probably have ancestors that died in WW1, and maybe you don’t even know it. It’s fitting that 100 years after the end of the war, we take some extra time to remember those that perished.
“We Are the Lost” is performed by Libera, an all-boy vocal group from South London that is known world-wide for their amazing classical crossover music and angelic voices. To learn more about Libera, visit their website at libera.co.uk, or search their hundreds of videos on Youtube (www.youtube.com/officiallibera) and subscribe.
Libera is known all over the world. If you’d like to support them, you can donate at libera.co.uk, or to help bring them back to the U.S. for 2019 you can donate at www.libera.org.
Song lyrics follow the video.
Lyrics to We Are the Lost
(Performed by Libera, composed by Robert Prizeman, solo by Michael Horncastle)
We are the lost who lived and loved
We felt the dawn saw sunset glow
For now we lie in row on row
In Flanders Fields
O lux beata lumina
Lumina (Shine blessed light, shine)
The larks fly high where guns destroyed
Now poppies grow and crosses show
Where now we lie in Flanders Fields
In row on row
Time like an ever-rolling stream
Bears all its sons away
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the break of day
We shall not sleep who lived and loved
Who felt the dawn saw sunset glow
If you break faith with us who lie
In Flanders Fields
O lux beata lumina
Lumina
From failing hands we throw the torch
Our light be yours to hold it high
For now we lie in Flanders Fields
In row on row
Time like an ever-rolling stream
Bears all its sons away
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the break of day
O lux beata lumina
Our light be yours
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