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Sunday, May 27, 2018

My Commonplace Book... Memorial Day: In Flanders Fields

This weekend we remember the people have given their lives that we can live in a free world. In WWI almost 20 million people died. In Flanders Field was written about those dead.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae


Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium


Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae


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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