Think of Me - by Bowbenders daughter

In Flanders Field my brethren grow

They mark the dead that lie below

The young men and women

That gave their lives

So brave and strong

The ones who fought for liberty

And helped undo the wrong

In the springtime their families walk among us

To visit the grave

Of their loved one

So gallant and brave

So when you see a poppy think of me

Laying with my brethren whose lives to soon ended

How heroically our liberty they defended

When you see a poppy think of me

And Flanders Field where my brethren be

I’m just a poppy a gentle reminder

Of those who fought to make the world a little kinder

In Flanders Field I’m just a poppy among the crosses

A simple flower marking the losses

A solemn reminder of the cost

For my brethren lost



Tori wrote it for her Granpa Earl Daniels. He was wounded and captured during WW2 in the Hurtgren Forest and spent eighteen months in a concentration camp until he was liberated by Patton's Army. We are very proud of our Veterans past and present.

Earl Daniels was born on March 28, 1925 in Moultrie County, IL, the son of Charles L. and Frieda Fern Moran Daniels. Earl served his country proudly in the U.S. Army in WW II and was wounded in battle and taken as a P.O.W. in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in Germany. He was in the Campaigns in Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland and received the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge and Bronze Star Medal. He was a life member of Strasburg American Legion Post #289, life member of VFW Post # 1769 of Effingham and member of D.A.V. Chapter 7 of Effingham.