Annual Memorial Day Ceremony and two meeting updates.

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1. The Full Text of “I Have a Rendezvous with Death”
   I have a rendezvous with Death

   At some disputed barricade,

   When Spring comes back with rustling shade

   And apple-blossoms fill the air—

   I have a rendezvous with Death

   When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

   It may be he shall take my hand

   And lead me into his dark land

   And close my eyes and quench my breath—

   It may be I shall pass him still.

   I have a rendezvous with Death

   On some scarred slope of battered hill,

   When Spring comes round again this year

   And the first meadow-flowers appear.

   God knows ’twere better to be deep

   Pillowed in silk and scented down,

   Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,

   Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,

   Where hushed awakenings are dear …

   But I’ve a rendezvous with Death

   At midnight in some flaming town,

   When Spring trips north again this year,

   And I to my pledged word am true,

   I shall not fail that rendezvous

   This poem was written by an American soldier figthing in the French army during WW1. He was killed at the battle of the Somme in 1917. His name was Alan Seeger

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