John mccrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

While some think he's from Montreal, others think he's a Brit, the story of soldier, doctor and poet John McCrae traces back to Guelph, Ontario.

JOHN ROBERT MUNGER is honored on Panel 9W, Row 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. JOHN ROBERT MUNGER is from COLUMBIA, SC and served as a SGT in the ARMY.

Bombs are shaped and designed to take advantage of their aerodynamics, so that's one good reason we don't drop just anything on the enemy.

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With restrictions no longer in place, Britain has finally been able to observe the two-minute silence at 11am together.

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The poppy is the recognized symbol of remembrance for war dead in Canada, the countries of the British Commonwealth, and the United States. The flower owes its significance to the poem In Flanders Fields, written by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John McCrae, a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery, in the midst of the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium, in May 1915. The poppy references in the first and last stanzas of the most widely read and oft-quoted poem of the war contributed to…

On this day in 1915, Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote the famous war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. He wrote it sitting in an ambulance after presiding over the funeral of his friend who...

John McCrae, soldier, physician, poet (born 30 November 1872 in Guelph, ON; died 28 January 1918 in Wimereux, France). A noted pathologist and army physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was also a poet; he wrote “In Flanders Fields” — one of the most famous poems of the First World War.