[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 179 (Tuesday, November 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H9473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, World War I ended 100 years ago. 
During the brutal, bloody war, thousands were killed in an area of 
France and Belgium called Flanders.
  ``In Flanders Fields,'' by John McCrae.

     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.

  Mr. Speaker, 116,000 Americans were killed in World War I. Now, after 
100 years, there will finally be a memorial erected in D.C. for all the 
veterans of the great war. It is about time, don't you think? For the 
worst casualty of war is to be forgotten.
  And that is just the way it is.

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