In the Ontario Legislature this week, Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli commemorated Remembrance Day and read a poem by his good friend, and North Bay resident, Lionel Murphy.
Lionel Murphy, Legion Branch 23, North Bay wrote this poem for Remembrance Day. Sadly, he died just over a month ago. He was 91.
On This Great Day
I wandered through the field today
A field of marble stone
So many young men laying there
Some stones are marked unknown
They gave their lives that we might live
The life we live today
Make sure the life they gave for us
Was not just thrown away
So many that have fallen
In battle lost and won
So many young lives taken
Before their lives began
They fought for love
Not for fame
For love of country
They lit the flame
They died alone
Or in a crowd
For those that did so
Let’s be proud
And now they lay in far off fields
Their duty done, the torch is passed
We must not let their memory lapse
And take the torch that they have passed
For if we fail to carry on
Our liberty may soon be gone
And many lives will bear the cross
Of liberty that we have lost
