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Veterans Day: The Legacy of In Flanders Fields

"We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow."

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Nov 11, 2025
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In the spring of 1915, in the middle of the unimaginable carnage of World War I, Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae sat beside the freshly dug grave of his friend and fellow soldier, Lieutenant …

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