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In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce 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 lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

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Great story about Flanders Fields. Don Cherry (as most know) is greatly supportive of the troops and every year on his radio show he dedicates 2 or 3 days around Nov 11 to soldier stories and things of that nature.

As it turns out...McCrae wrote it in about 15 minutes, sitting on the back of a vehicle after burying another solider. When he finished writing...he threw the paper away. It was another soldier who picked it up...and sent it to a British newspaper where it was first published.

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