“At the going down of the sun….

….. and in the morning, We will remember them.”
Friday 11 November
Today was Veterans Day in the U.S. so it seemed appropriate to choose these well known words from the poem by Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen to accompany my photo of this evening’s beautiful sunset.
Laurence Binyon composed his best known poem while sitting on the cliff-top looking out to sea from the dramatic scenery of the north Cornish coastline. A plaque marks the location at Pentire Point, north of Polzeath. However, there is also a small plaque on the East Cliff north of Portreath, further south on the same north Cornwall coast, which also claims to be the place where the poem was written. The poem was written in mid September 1914, a few weeks after the outbreak of the First World War. During these weeks the British Expeditionary Force had suffered casualties following its first encounter with the Imperial German Army at the Battle of Mons on 23 August, its rearguard action during the retreat from Mons in late August and the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August, and its participation with the French Army in holding up the Imperial German Army at the First Battle of the Marne between 5 and 9 September 1914.
It was a gloomy day today, with falling temperatures, so we did our daily exercise at Esporta, swimming 50 lengths for me.