...fifteen-year-old Canadian recruits, gassed later at Ypres t 5k*, lmi~ir*jL St+~~ POPPIES: THREE VARIATIONS In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses,...bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. — JOHN McCRAE 1. I had an uncle once who served inFlanders. Flanders, or was it France? I'm old enough...

...battles in the ancient walled city of Ypres, France. The area, which inspired the poem "Flanders Fields" ("In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row / That mark our place"), is one of the dreariest landscapes in western Europe, a vast, sodden, gray pasture with almost no signs...

...death in battle: nearly a third of British soldiers killed in the Great War lost their lives there. In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row . . . We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and...

...Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. nWear a red poppy on your lapel or collar. In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row ... — John McCrae Videos/DVDs Be cautious when selecting modern videos for AD patients. Many are...

...become the symbol of death, now graphically conjured up in McCrae's opening stanza (CD track 15J. w In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses,...The larks still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard amidst the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved...

...birds and the wind. You can hear the poppies blow in Flanders fields between the crosses row on row, "we are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved." Men have stony expressions on their faces, their hands folded in front. Women look severe. Everyone...

...May of 1915. Many of Gather's readers would associate Flanders with John McCrae's famous 1915 poem: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place." 42 the Foreign Legion: The Legion Etrangere, a mercenary military corps, consisted chiefly of foreign...

...scene of some of the worst fighting of the war; the "speakers" of the poem are the dead. It begins: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place "Invictus" A popular poem from the late nineteenth century by the English author William Ernest Henley....

...who wrote that poem in 1915, at the bunkers outside Ypres. It was published in a London newspaper: "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row ..." The nurse with the green eyes and short, blonde hair took it from there: "That mark our place;...

...those battles in far-off France, when they were young. It was a Canadian named John McCrae who wrote, "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row." We knew of that sacrifice and of the honour and acclaim they had won, and we were determined that we...