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Remembrance Day

Yesterday, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the NLA held a 10-minute assembly including a poetry reading and a 2-minute silence to honour those who have died in the line of duty.

'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
 

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, —

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells.

And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
 

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall.

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

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