In Flanders Fields
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.
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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.
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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.
~ JOHN MCCRAE, 1915
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From 1914 to 1918, Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during WWI. A million soldiers from more than fifty different countries were wounded, missing, or killed in action there.
John McCrae (a Canadian doctor) wrote the poem In Flanders Fields shortly after losing a friend in Ypres. His famous poem inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.
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