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In Flanders fields Poem From War Hero McCrae
In Flanders fields John McCrae a Canadian Medical Corps member from Gulf Ontario served as artillery veteran turned field surgeon and poet in 1915 at Lyp during gas attacks. He penned lines after 17 days at the Yser Canal while tending hundreds of wounded signaling enduring soldierly voice and folk song spread by spoken word.
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