IN FLANDERS FIELDS
The setting: ‘WORLD WAR I’, the second week of the ‘BATTLE OF YPRES’, May 2 1915.
Canadian artillery officer Lieutenant ‘LEXIS HELMER’ gets killed by a German artillery shell.
His friend, military doctor Major JOHN MCCRAE, is asked to help conduct the burial service the next day.
Later that evening, May 2 1915, JOHN MCCRAE starts to write his famous poem.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
