Site of the Day for Monday, November 12, 2001
In Flanders Fields
This year a record 17,000,000 poppies have been distributed to the Canadian
public. For the first time since the campaign was established in 1921, the
Canadian Legion, which administers the poppy campaign, ran out of poppies.
In commemoration of November 11, Remembrance Day in Canada and Australia,
and Veterans Day in the U.S., the List offers a webpage which presents the
story behind one of the most quoted war poems from World War I. "In
Flanders Fields", written by John McCrae, a Canadian surgeon serving in
Flanders, is a poem learned by many Canadian school children. This is the
story behind the poem and an explanation of why Canadians and Australians
wear poppies on the days leading up to Remembrance Day.
Visit this somber, yet informative site in keeping with the solemnity of
the occasion.
http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/poppies.html
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A.M. Holm
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