Let's not forget today is Remembrance Day.
And as our now late legend, Leonard Cohen, had a knack for the sombre, how appropriate is this video of him reciting the poem "In Flanders Fields"?
The poem, by Canadian John McCrae, was composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing flyScarce 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 lieIn Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foeTo you, from failing hands, we throwThe torch: be yours to hold it highIf ye break faith with us who die,We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields"