In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
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.
Below are the names of American veterans honored by those who helped make the printing of “Endowed by Their Creator:” A Collection of Historic American Military Prayers 1774-Present possible. We are proud to honor the service and sacrifice of those who stood against enemies, foreign and domestic, and gave so much for our freedoms.
Captain George P. Archer, Army
Pacific Theater – World War II
Lieutenant Russell Badgett, Jr., Navy
Pacific Theater – World War II
Corporal Bernard Brueggemann, Army
Pacific Theater – World War II
Lieutenant Edward Joseph Chady, Navy
World War II
Alfred Colella, Army Air Force
World War II
Colonel Thomas L. Cummings, Jr., Army & Air National Guard
Alaskan and South Pacific Theatre – World War II
Second Lieutenant Oliver Lawrence Garrison Elder, Navy
Pacific Theater – World War II
Sam Fiduccia, Army
World War II
Corporal Robert Frisz, Marine Corps
Iwo Jima – World War II
Major George Wilson Hazlett, Air Force
Killed in Action, Pacific Theatre – World War II
Major Frank Hower, Marine Corps
Korea
Joe Thomas Kelley, Merchant Marine
Normandy – World War II
Seaman First Class Kimber Albert Krick, Navy
World War II
Private First Class Francis P. McDermott, Navy
Pacific Theater – World War II
Ed Mileski, Army Air Force
World War II
Major Ricard R. Ohrstrom, Marine Corps
Okinawa Campaign – World War II
PhM Second Class George Wesley Ransdell, Navy
Pacific Theater – World War II
Sergeant Joseph M. Ray, Army
Killed in Action, 1945 – Okinawa, Japan
Major J. Manuel Ray, Army
Wounded in Action – North Africa, Sicily & Anzio Beachhead, Italy – World War II
PhM First Class Robert Wallace Ray, Navy
Pacific Theater – World War II
Technical Sergeant Cletus H. Risch, Army
India/Burma Theater – World War II
Captain Wood Rose, Army Air Corps
Prisoner of War, Europe – World War II
Bertram W. Still, Army
U.S .Walter Reed Hospital – World War II
First Sergeant John William Thompson, Army
European Theater – World War II
Tom Tierney, Marine Corps
Pacific Theater – World War II
First Lieutenant Stephen Neel Van Winkle, Army
World War I
Private William H. Werner, Army
Korean War
