Anonymous ID: 29b267 Nov. 11, 2024, 11:41 a.m. No.21964226   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4268 >>4366 >>4444

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>Happy Veteran's Day!!!

nice

 

John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields which inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.

In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his now famous poem after seeing poppies growing in battle-scarred fields.

 

In Flanders Fields

The poem by 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.

 

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/about-remembrance/in-flanders-field