Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae 1914
by David Lee Guss
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Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae 1914
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David Lee Guss
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"Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem 'In Flanders Fields'. McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
Though various legends have developed as to the inspiration for the poem, the most commonly held belief is that McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields' on May 3, 1915, the day after presiding over the funeral and burial of his friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who had been killed during the Second Battle of Ypres. The poem was written as he sat upon the back of a medical field ambulance near an advance dressing post at Essex Farm, just north of Ypres. The poppy, which was a central feature of the poem, grew in great numbers in the spoiled earth of the battlefields and cemeteries of Flanders.'"
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. Soldier, physician and poet Lt. Colonel John McCeae, 1872-1916
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