The Red Poppy

Joe Carter FirstThings.com/First Thoughts 5/31/2010

In 1915, Canadian medical officer John McCrae published what has become one of the most popular poems from the First World War, “In Flanders Fields”:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely […]

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