{"id":124442,"date":"2023-11-10T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124442"},"modified":"2023-11-11T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T15:04:36","slug":"for-veterans-day-2021-the-poem-for-the-fallen-by-robert-laurence-binyon-1869-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124442","title":{"rendered":"For Veterans Day 2023\u2013The Poem For the Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young,<br \/>\nStraight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.<br \/>\nThey were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;<br \/>\nThey fell with their faces to the foe.<\/p>\n<p>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br \/>\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br \/>\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning<br \/>\nWe will remember them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/For-The-Fallen\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x2693; Today we salute the brave men and women who have served and currently serve in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USNavy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USNavy<\/a>. Their dedication, courage, and sacrifice have protected our nation&#39;s freedom. On this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VeteransDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VeteransDay<\/a>, let us honor our Navy veterans and express our deepest gratitude for their service. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/svyUsZ7REc\">pic.twitter.com\/svyUsZ7REc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Navy (@USNavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USNavy\/status\/1723339808758530191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124442\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,106,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-military-armed-forces","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124444,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124442\/revisions\/124444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}