Lawrence County Military Records
100th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Korean and Vietnam War
Casualties
- Transcribed by Tammy Clark
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He Is Only Away
I can not say and I will not say
-James Whitcomb Riley
That he is dead - He is just away!
With a cheery smile and a wave of hand
He has wandered into an unknown land.
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be since he lingers there.
And you - O you, who the wildest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return
Think of him still as the same. I say;
He is not dead - he is just away.
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.
- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
