The Gathering Storm
“ECCLESIASTES 3:2B The once bright poppies were withering.
Warm January days and early February rains, so pleasant across Belgium and northern France that winter of 1940, had encouraged a profusion of wild blooms. A continuous drought since March caused that time of exuberant growth to be no more than a two-month-old memory. The grassy fields around Passendale and Ypres yellowed with unseasonable heat. The poppies' drooping heads were bowed with thirst. The once vibrant banks of color had ...faded to mere streaks, like threadbare, blood-stained carpet.
Judah Blood straightened up and stretched his aching back and reflected on the weather. There were fewer weeds to pluck this year from around the headstones of Tyne Cott cemetery and none of the stone monuments were in danger of being engulfed in vines. Just the opposite was true: at this rate the entire hillside, where close to twelve thousand Allied soldiers had slept since the Great War, would be nothing but dust before midsummer.MoreLess
Warm January days and early February rains, so pleasant across Belgium and northern France that winter of 1940, had encouraged a profusion of wild blooms. A continuous drought since March caused that time of exuberant growth to be no more than a two-month-old memory. The grassy fields around Passendale and Ypres yellowed with unseasonable heat. The poppies' drooping heads were bowed with thirst. The once vibrant banks of color had ...faded to mere streaks, like threadbare, blood-stained carpet.
Judah Blood straightened up and stretched his aching back and reflected on the weather. There were fewer weeds to pluck this year from around the headstones of Tyne Cott cemetery and none of the stone monuments were in danger of being engulfed in vines. Just the opposite was true: at this rate the entire hillside, where close to twelve thousand Allied soldiers had slept since the Great War, would be nothing but dust before midsummer.MoreLess
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