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The British wear poppies on Armistice Day because a Canadian doctor wrote a poem that mentions poppies. It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the ...
“In Flanders Fields” was written by Lt. Col. John McCrea of Canada in May 1915 after the funeral of a friend killed in the Second Battle of Ypres. First published that year in the British ...
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 ...
John McCrae, the author of "In Flanders Fields," wrote the poem after attending the funeral of a fellow soldier who died in battle in Belgium.It was first published in England's Punch magazine in ...
A copy of the "In Flanders' Field" poem plate as well as an original Dec. 8, 1915 edition of Punch Magazine in which the poem was published sit in a glass case on display at the RCA Museum at CFB ...
"In Flanders Fields" became one of the most quoted poems from the war with, even decades later, school children memorizing it. Flanders Field was a common name for battlefields in Belgium and France.
In this photo from 2015, the paper poppies distributed by volunteers across Naperville were accompanied by printed copies of Col. John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders Fields.” (Susan Frick ...
But I have a different historical signpost in mind this morning, and the 44 th U.S. president figures in that one, too: Every five years, I write an elegy to a famous poem about war.
As this year’s Remembrance season and its tributes fade, and the little symbolic poppies are gently discarded for another year, here is a coda to all the sadness and pride that they evoked. The ...