'In Flanders Fields' -- A Century Later

Since the years of World War I, the poppy has remained a symbol of Remembrance Day.
Most of us in Canada wear it proudly on our lapels each year, and it is also worn in the U.K. and, to a lesser extent, in the U.S.A.
But we Canadians have our own symbol of war, peace and remembrance: the poem, 'In Flanders Fields.'
This year we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the poem by Lt.-Col John McRae, a field surgeon from Guelph, Ontario.
The poem still resonates and continues to inspire, a century after its publication.
According to a story posted on CBC News on November 11, 'it was hardly the only poem penned out of the emotion of the First World War. But its vivid imagery and the haunting evocation of men whose lives were lost have given it a lasting place in the collective Canadian imagination.'
In short, it 'gets to your soul.'
At that same CBC News story, you can listen to 'In Flanders Fields', read by Michael Enright.
Here is the poem, written by McCrae, soon after the death of a friend during the second battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915:

'We shall remember them.'