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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn honour of Remembrance Day (the name given to Nov. 11 here in Canada)
Here is a memory and a sentiment that deserve not to be forgotten...
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In honour of Remembrance Day (the name given to Nov. 11 here in Canada) (Original Post)
GliderGuider
Nov 2012
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)1. This is often sung in England and Canada on Remembrance Day
From the orchestral piece Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar; the Nimrod variation is often sung as Requiem aeternam, lux aeterna (Eternal rest; eternal light).
The words are taken from the Requiem Mass: Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in æternum, quia pius es. Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis...... English translation: May everlasting light shine upon them, O Lord, with your Saints forever, for you are merciful. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them.......
Ihad the minister play a recording of this at my father's funeral in 2000. He was a WWII Veteran of the Army Air Corps. So I snuck some good music in Latin into a small-town Methodist Church!!
CBHagman
(16,984 posts)2. Nimrod is often included in the National Memorial Day Concert...
...held on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. I had been looking for Remembrance Day-appropriate poems and music, and somehow overlooked that one.
On the Road
(20,783 posts)3. And This Recent One:
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GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)4. You may have missed my point
To quote the bard, "I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him."