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Article: In Flanders fields.(cemeteries)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- DAV Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Around 175 miles north of Paris and 46 miles west of Brussels lies one of the most well-known cemeteries for our nation's veterans whose bodies remain near where they fought. Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial near Waregem, Belgium is the resting place for 368 military dead who sacrificed their mortal souls to liberate Belgium in World War I. These sacred grounds were memorialized by John McCrae's immortal poem "In Flanders Fields." The "poppies of Flanders fields" have been an enduring symbol of the sacrifices of veterans. Artificial Forget-Me-Nots are used by DAV Departments and Chapters to raise funds to ...
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Article: IN FLANDERS FIELDS; THE POEMS.(Features)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);
November 11, 2007 ;
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...In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses ... and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe ... not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields John McCrae (1915)
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