16 Dec 2024
The stories behind the PoppiesOn the World War I battlefields of Belgium, poppies grew wild amid the ravaged landscape. A surgeon with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery, Col. McCrae expressed his grief over “row on row” of soldiers’ graves who had died on Flanders battlefields. The poem he wrote became a rallying cry to all who fought in that war. In Flanders field the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row. That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce ...