In Flanders Fields (John McCrae)

In Flanders Fields
Poem by John McCrae, 1915

Written by a medical officer near the end of the first year of the First World War, this famous poem commemorates the loss of fallen comrades and calls on the listener to honor their sacrifice by continuing to fight for their cause. This poem and its imagery have been referenced in many memorials for those who died in service to their country, in the war for which it was written and in many wars thereafter.