This episode marks a time of remembrance.
We pause to honour those who gave their lives in war — and to reflect on the truth that lies behind the words honour and glory.
John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” has become almost inseparable from remembrance itself — a poem of beauty and resolve, written in the shadow of the Great War.
Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” answers that call with the voice of experience, stripped of illusion, confronting the human cost behind the patriotic ideal.
Together, these two poems remind us that remembrance is not only about pride, but about understanding.
The silence we keep each November is more than an act of memory — it is an act of truth.
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