IN Flanders Fields, by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

Nov 11, 2014, 03:21 PM

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This poem, which I have known by heart since I was a child, is in honour of Remembrance Day--that being November 11 in Canada. #literature #McCrae #poetry #poems #recitations #remembrance

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