<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy of <i>Wikipedia</i> at:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></div><div><h1 id="section_0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 12px 220px 7px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 227, 228); font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.3; font-size: 1.7em; 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border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">war poem</a> in the form of a <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondeau_(poetry)" title="Rondeau (poetry)" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">rondeau</a>, written during the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;">First World War</a> by Canadian physician <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" title="Lieutenant Colonel" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Lieutenant Colonel</a> <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrae" title="John McCrae" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">John McCrae</a>. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres" title="Second Battle of Ypres" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Second Battle of Ypres</a>. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">London</a>-based magazine <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine)" title="Punch (magazine)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Punch</a></i>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is one of the most popular and most quoted poems from the war. As a result of its immediate popularity, parts of the poem were used in propaganda efforts and appeals to recruit soldiers and raise money selling <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond" title="War bond" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">war bonds</a>. Its references to the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_rhoeas" title="Papaver rhoeas" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">red poppies</a> that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_poppy" title="Remembrance poppy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">remembrance poppy</a> becoming one of the world's most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict. The poem and poppy are prominent <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day" title="Remembrance Day" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Remembrance Day</a> symbols throughout the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Commonwealth of Nations</a>, particularly in <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Canada</a>, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem also has wide exposure in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">United States</a>, where it is associated with <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day_(United_States)" title="Veterans Day (United States)" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Veterans Day</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"In Flanders Fields" </b>by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae</span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Between the crosses, row on row,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">That mark our place; and in the sky<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The larks, still bravely singing, fly<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scarce heard amid the guns below.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are the Dead. Short days ago<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loved and were loved, and now we lie<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Flanders fields.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To you from failing hands we throw<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The torch; be yours to hold it high.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">If ye break faith with us who die<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Flanders fields.</span><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></body></html>