In Flanders Fields

[EveningStar]

In Flanders Fields

By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army


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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[DesertFox]

Modern generations know nothing of the vileness of WWI, the savagery and butchery, the insanity of many of the engagements. It was the war where all innocence was lost.

In ways that war was worse than WWII, and certainly it gave birth to The Second Round.