This is very touching to me. To think that so many brave men gave their lives in such horrific and inhumane conditions, its stomach wrenching. Those battlefields and trenches where literally open grave yards covered in bones, Rats and trench foot where a constant problem. I Give a very proud respectful salute to those fearless men who died as rock solid patriots. HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was 10 when i first heard this at school, it was the veteran's day assembly. I broke down crying in the assembly hall. Now here I am 3 years later and it still makes me cry.
All of my male family have died in the wars that r country has been involved in my brother went missing in action in Afghanistan last year but now he has been found he is very I'll and may not live I am only 13 and this song helps me cope I sit there wondering why me why does my life need to be messed up then I remember all the mean things i said to him and cry please can someone give me some advice on how to cope I really need it
@thomastijn5 Actually.... in WWI, germany was not nazi, so you would still be free if they won. The germans didnt enter the war for greed, they were just allied with Austria Hungary, whose king got attacked by a Serbian untermensch.
Sad that the author Lt Col. John McCrae, Canadian Army Medical Corps is not given proper attribution for writing the Poem In Flanders Fields. Every Canadian kid is required to memorize the poem in grade School. Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae Born November 30, 1872 Died– January 28, 1918, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
This song makes me cry every time I hear it. I may not know how awful the wars actually were (I'm 20 and only know what I learned in history class or what I studied myself) but to know how many brave soldiers died and more are still dying today is so sad and heart wrenching.
I remember singing this is elementary school. My teacher really wanted to understand why we were singing it. Not for our own recognition but to honor those who it was written for.
who ever dose not like this obously dose not know what freedome costs so to whom ever hats this you need to see that freedom more than a word it is people fighting and dieing for us. so scew you people who hate this
Fun Fact: the writer of this poem was actually in shock when he was writing this. He was on ambulence duty when his buddy, a few feet away from him, was hit with a shell and his other friend picked his peices up so he could get buried. When he was going back, he started to write.
I always feel like crying when I hear this song. We used to play this song evey year to honor the heroic people who died in wars to protect us in my old school. *Sniff Sniff* I am not an adult yet, really, so yeah I dont know what the wars were like. But I am mature enough to know that it was horrible. In my school, this remembrance day and week thing is just an activity to every kid, including my friends. It makes me so sad that they think like that...
today i showed my brother this song when he turned up his music and shoved this to the side i wondered why hardly anyone now adays has any respect for the men and women who risk their lives to keep us safe, or to the vetrans who experienced terrible terrible things so that we could live our everyday lives or the soilders who lost they're lives fighting for the same thing... I'm 16 and half the people I go to school with are complaining of our remeberance day celebration tomorrow... *sigh*
So Sad i wish these young kids would take time to remember the soldiers who sacrifice themselves to keep freedom to our world and keep peace to our countrys (USA,CANADA,UK ETC) i wish there was no armys in the world :( so there will be no more wars :(
@keenanfriday285 doesn't japan no longer have an army??? i think that after WW2 they no longer had an army, that would actually explain a lot why they're so advanced in technology, their funds dont go towards nukes but towards education instead!
Remembrance Day is not all sad it is about honoring our military heroes but we should also enjoy life and the freedoms we all share in first world countries that some do not have, or died too young to enjoy. Life is a gift, freedom is too, enjoy it, especially on that day.
@Insaneo78 completely agree with you, however i think some ppl take that too far... this is just my personal belief but I'm sure many will agree - at memorial assembly the ONLY music that should be playing is from the pipes, instead (especially at schools) we get techno beats and kids dancing while pictures of dead soldiers flash up on the screen behind them. i think that we should all calm down a bit and actually grieve, understand and appreciate, not just dance and laugh away.
@shevadabest11 No arguments there. It is mostly a day of mourning but I believe a lot of people made their sacrifices so we could have more happy free lives which is why I think you should do something happy and enjoyable that day too but always be respectful.
I love doing this song for veterans day. At my school my Jazz Choir class has us guys sing it for all of the veterans who show up to our ceremony at our school and It makes me happy knowing we can do something for them.
Lest we forget. War is hell and it may be good for some to depend on failing memories to wipe the horrors from their minds, but for those who make these descisions it is good to have a very long memory. In other wars, thousands even millions can be lost. But today with so many nukes still hot in their silos a tiny mistake can cause entire nations to...disappear. Select your leaders wisely and never trust them too much and always test them for weakness to start war.
@dreamarl I know what you mean, and it did cross my mind once. But there's actually something really sad about it, especially with the choir. It goes back and forth from minor to major, but I think it's a good version.
@rabidmonkeys36 I agree that it's a wonderful version. I guess I'm just used to the version we sing here, and well, in my opinion, our version is sadder.
But hey. It's In Flanders Fields. It's for Remembrance Day. That's what's important. :)
It's a beautiful song... But my music teacher re-composed it, and his version actually sounds a lot sadder... TT_TT But it's sad either way... Respect to all who died in the war.
Such a sad, sad song. Today's generation has no clue, no inkling, no preconception of how awful the world wars were. This nonsense out in the sandbox is kiddy stuff compared to Verdun, Somme, and Ypres.
@aldoreshgaramok I am of today's generation, however I appreciate, & acknowledge how tragic war really was, and still is. Especially war faught with such violence... It's so disappointing how students consider remembrance day simply as just another school day off.
@aldoreshgaramok I'm not shure if that is a bad thing. That we have no clue i mean. I know the world wars were awful but i don't want to know how awful.
@adervenisje I think its definitely a bad thing. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
The aftermath of 9/11 is a sad reminder of that. It was practically WW1 all over again, in terms of the suppression of dissent, the abuse of patriotism to stampede citizens to war, the labeling of pacifists and objectors as traitorous and dangerous. And just like 1914 Europe, even Christian religious leaders pushed for war - despite the 5th Commandment being "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
@aldoreshgaramok "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it" I totally agree but what i mean is that i'm happy to not live in a time were there is a world war.
@adervenisje That is exactly what I mean. Having knowledge of the horror of war makes you NOT want to engage it. You have sated your curiosity by the study of history, instead of harsh (or deadly) experience.
But it is not enough to "be happy." War is not some inexorable force, like the weather. It is performed by men, for the benefit of men. I am assuming you are an American or European. If so, you have elected representatives you can bring up your issues with. Tell them flatly, "No war."
@aldoreshgaramok i might be wrong but u sound like ur complaining that we have no clue how awful the world wars were. Im actually very glad that me and my generation dont know it and my #1 wish is that our future generations will also never have to know it and go through it. and the wars today are no kiddy stuff buddy. we must understand one life lost is just as big a tragedy as a million, secondly, unless u have experienced both wars and fought in them, dont judge whats "real" and whats "kiddy"
@shevadabest11 Such appalling, widespread ignorance is certainly worthy of complaint.
Modern wars in general are bad (e.g. the Congo), but the WoT, in the greater scheme of things, is far more wasteful of treasure than blood. The British Army lost in 24 hours at Somme 4x the KIA and nearly the same wounded as us in 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. High-tech industrial warfare has replaced the infantry charge and 40-pounder with air power.
@aldoreshgaramok how am i being ignorant? plz dont bother educating me in history im currently getting enough of it from my professor, i know when it ended and why it happened and the effects it has on us today and how many lives were lost, but that is not my point. unless u have actually experienced WW1&2 and today's wars, then dont make judgements cuz u cant even imagine what it like from ur computer screen. ppl are still dying and just cuz they're not dying by millions doesnt mean its "kiddy"
@shevadabest11 Sir, you are not the first to bring up this obnoxious platitude about how we all must "experience" war before we can comment on it. I tell you flatly - No I don't. There is no human being alive who has fought in all three or those wars, so you are simply saying no one is permitted to speak. That isn't going to fly with anyone who studies history.
I honestly don't know how to convince someone who thinks a war with 1 million deaths is just as bad as one with 20 to 40 million.
@aldoreshgaramok im not saying no one is allowed to speak, actually we must speak and remember and appreciate it. but what I dont agree with is how u say today's wars are kiddy. From my view, I dont know how to convince someone that one death is just as tragic as 100 deaths.Our life is the most precious gift we have and today there are many people dying from war, in fact we dont even know how many. I dont mean to fight, just healthy educated discussion: how much we know about today's wars??
@aldoreshgaramok ex: remember the "huge" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?RECENTLY I just found out that on the east coast of Africa, there are 20 such spills every year!!! Another ex. 45000 ppl die every week(!!!) because of the coltan war in Congo. These are examples that I found out about RECENTLY and they have been happening for YEARS! Today's world is not as nice as it seems, I am just extremely blessed that I have been able to immigrate to Canada with my whole family and live a good life.
@aldoreshgaramok my point being is that you or me, i just feel like we cant say what was happening in WW1 is so much more tragic then what is happening today, I feel it would be an insult to those suffering from war today, cuz really, who are we to judge? today's wars are just as awful, that's all im trying to say, and yes the number of deaths is a big factor but to me, even one life lost is a huge tragedy that can b avoided, and i feel that one death is degraded if we label it as kiddy death
@aldoreshgaramok Sure, we may not have experienced the horrors of war, nor have we felt the terror felt by many veterans, and even people at home, but I can tell you for sure; we recognize the horror, and the significance of the first world war. We wear our poppies with pride, and respect. We see the sacrifice made for us, and our country, and we truly do honor that.
@aldoreshgaramok That is true but it does not give you the right to tell the families of those that have died in said sandbox that their loved ones where killed in a war that you consider "kiddy stuff." I respect all our veterans, whether they served in the World Wars or at a small post in Afghanistan.
@DeadpoolisCanadian Emotions are a poor map on the road to truth. One need not abdicate higher thought, inquiry, and debate to "respect" slain soldiers - and death need not confer it. Furthermore, bereavement does not grant infallibility. Obviously, anyone who has lost a family member or close friend to war would believe it to be an earthshaking catastrophe. But believing in something doesn't make it true. And neither does believing that five thousand is greater than 10 million.
@aldoreshgaramok I do not believe that 5 thousand is greater than 10 million. I simply believe that you need to show some respect to all our veterans, past and present. Thank you, sir.
@DeadpoolisCanadian That kind of huff-puff isn't going to cut it. You need to bring facts and logic to your argument, instead of trying to shut down the discussion with pliable, feel-good twaddle about "respecting" veterans - which you have simply equated to agreeing with you.
A final letter from the heart of a soldier. "My darling, tears flow as i write this to you. My final testament, with love so true. I will not see you even once more, I will fall today like those before. Do not cry, we will be together soon, when we are both in heaven, with the stars and the moon. I love you my sweetest, most precious dove, I promise I will watch over you forever,with God, from above." By: Giacomo Brao
@PrincessCupcake3 It is very lovely!! Im a suprano so it sounds soo pretty with all supranos and altos=) ill post a video soon our concert is on the 29 so!!!
@MarciandJanessa16 My show choir is doing this! The soprano's complete this song. where it starts out "Scarce heard amid...." the song wouldn't sound right without the soprano's. I am a soprano also. Our concert will be at our veteran's day ceremony the 11. It will be absolutely amazing! My class fell in love with it as soon as we heard it:) Good luck!:) P.S. Soprano's are the best! ;)
We are doing this in choir too. I love it. It is so beautiful. Can you believe he threw the poem away? Thank goodness someone found it and published it.
@MrLtdodds I don't think I derserve this onslaught of verbal aggression. Also, I find your comments slanderous, implying things I never meant nor said. There is one thing, however, that I do think because it transpires thickly through your words: You actually think you are a better person only because you are a Belgian and I'm a German. I don't care too much because I have learned to live with that, having suffered racism by our European friends numerous times when abroad -and I was born in 64.
@jensww22 i apologize. i just came back from visiting Ieper and was emotionally not in to good a state,(although it was not my first visit) and therefore i completely misunderstood what you meant. For what it is worth; i not only visited tyne cot,but also again the german cemetary at
langemark, and earlier this year the german cemetary in lommel and in Normandie,and i feel the same sorrow for the men of both sides.i really do. i do not hate the german people. not at all. i hope you understand
@jensww22 do YOU know what we did in the congo? Congo vrijstaat was in the beginning THE PERSONNEL POSSESSION of leopold 2, a king we hated ourselfs! it was his mercenaries that did those horrible things! when it was passed over to the Belgian state, we build roads, railroads, many priests went there to teach and build hospitals! and one thing is for sure; WE DID NOT BUILD CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO GAS AND BURN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!
@jensww22 there are still bullitholes in the wall of our city courthouse were civilians were shot in ww1 AND ww2, my grandfather also was detained once!! you have absolutely no idea how bad it was!! i wonder what you would say if it would have been the other way around! nobody says all germans are evil, certainly not, but do NOT try to talk this evil right! germany betrayed our trust and friendship, twice. now we still want to be friends. do not betray us again by saying we "deserved"this attack
it makes me realice the loved and ones we love die,war sall be no more if thee who dose will be sunded even the usa . our loved one's die cause war why can't everyone just love another please lord stop war.
@JewlsMcfly77 As for the author's intentions we have to rely on tradition. However, I'm also inclined to believe in the writer's honourable motives. But that is not the issue. It is what others have made of the poem and that's propaganda staring you in the face with the sole purpose of justifying the continuation of the slaughter. The poem has lost its innocence. Sing it if it makes you feel good - I take my students to cemeteries (Allied and German). And now I rest my case.
@JewlsMcfly77 As for the author's intentions we have to rely on tradition. However, I'm also inclined to believe in the writer's honourable motives. But that is not the issue. It is what others have made of the poem and that's propaganda staring you in the face with the sole purpose of justifying the continuation of the slaughter. The poem has lost its innocence. Sing it if it makes you feel good - I take my students to cemeteries (Allied and German). And now I rest my case.
@JewlsMcfly77 It was written in 1915, initially not intended for an larger audience, and then published in Dec. 1915 in "Punch", therefore clearly meant to bolster morale and to help the war effort, i.e. propaganda. Today it's a quarry for anyone's different purposes.
@jensww22 it was written in the trenches by a Canadian Doctor named John McCrea during the second battle of Ypres. He wrote the poem after a fellow Canadian soldier ( his best friend was killed). The next day he sat by his grave and looked at all the crosses in the graveyard. He wrote it quickly out of the grief for the lost of his friend and it was never intended or was used for propaganda but his way of giving his dead comrades and friends a voice.
To those working in education: I use the song in my class to show how teachers in Britain are furthering a rather questionable my-country-right-or-wrong attitude and how they turn themselves into instruments of army recruitment centres.
Read the third stanza. I believe it perpetuates old (?) hatreds. Occasional but repeated complaints by my students about xenophobic gibes and taunts while on school exchange in Britain are testament to that.
Nice poem, nicely put into music. For me as a German, however, the last lines are belligerent anf offensive. From the comments here (the rambling about bravery and sacrifice) I can only take home with me that people will never learn and that this poem laughs in the face of millions who, ultimately, have died for the silliness and ambition of old people.
as long as there is man, there is war. as long as there is war there is death. as long as there is dath, there is grief. as long as there is grief, there is no hope. but if we can have new hope we can be liberated from the chains of war.- Thomas Silcock
I'm suprised how many people here praise the soldiers who fought in the WWI and the cause they fought for (whatever the hell that might possibly be, you tell me). Of course, God bless them all. They didn't know any better than that they would serve their country and their loved ones indirectly, as opposed to the actual ratio of the War of a few inbred aristocrats, who thought rivers of blood were necessary to show off their military pride and power. I believe this poem is telling exactly this.
It's not about praising the war and ''its cause'', guys. It's about mourning the dead and the fact that the Great War didn't have any necessary/legitimate fundament to back up its ignition. They died for nothing. Nothing, but the desire to take revenge and show off brutal power of blood and steel of a few monarchists. May they all rest in peace.
@Vladimirovic The Germans and the Austrians were fighting for their country. Because Serbian terrorists killed the Austrians leader just as we did to Afghanistan to they did to Serbia if they had been quiet it would be cowardice. They fought for there country.Knowing they were about to take on the world for that cause. This isn't just about the Great War. Its about bravery courage. Veterans day, a day of mourning yet happiness as we may know the world is not full of cowards .
@Vladimirovic You don't know the cause yet you post this comment? Their bravery courage shall be remembered forever doing only the same as we would have.
@MrLittlelawyer Sure, I could sum up the causeS of the WWI by simply opening up a book on the basic fundament of the Great War. I am merely questioning THEIR cause, the cause of the working/middle class lads who were enrolled in the armies, led by common realpolitiker-aristocrats, who viewed them as grunts, worth less than their guns of wood and steel. Whatever that is, it sure doesn't outweigh the outrageous human losses.
@Vladimirovic Then question my country the US who had no business in the war at all. Though the Germans were torpedoing ships people forget that because of British sea mines Germans (who were fighting beside Austria against terrorism) were being starved to death in many of their cities. Our ships were warned not to go to Britain as it was hard for subs to tell the distinction between British and American ships. Their cause was so not to be called cowards and serve their country.
Comoventes a letra e a música, muito apropriadas para a famosa "geração perdida" -i- inglesa, francesa, americana, alemã e outras - nos campos de batalha da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Infelizmente, a Humanidade não aprende e vive cometendo os mesmos erros, os mesmos massacres.
i dont know how anybody could dislike this song. its so beautiful and just makes u really think about all those lives given for the freedom we all take for granted today.
For every soldier who dies for any cause good and true there is another who comes to fight for that cause. As the light of a torch that never goes out. Let us be as brave as they were for to us they threw that torch. For war has a purpose that which is to defend ones self ,Innocent life ,and the rights of every person endowed upon them by their creator. Let fight for these things and nothing else. As Brave men before us did. Thank them and honor them.
@IFknHateUTube Please tell me you're joking, and that you really aren't as stupid as you sound. Please, I still have some faith in humanity's general intelligence.
@IFknHateUTube The poppies in this poem don't have anything to do with drugs, dude. It is a sign of growing hope after destruction, since it only growns on plodges of land on which no considerate amount of other plants grow, which was also the case in Flanders during the WWI, since its landscape was robbed of its botanic beauty consequent to the constant shelling & bombing.
Great song but oh god the first FlAAnders field scared the crap outta me. Vowel work much?
HayleyandZoe 14 hours ago
We're singing this song in my highschool choir class. Thumbs up!
15kaili 4 days ago
This is very touching to me. To think that so many brave men gave their lives in such horrific and inhumane conditions, its stomach wrenching. Those battlefields and trenches where literally open grave yards covered in bones, Rats and trench foot where a constant problem. I Give a very proud respectful salute to those fearless men who died as rock solid patriots. HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
redbarret123 4 days ago
sends chills up my spine
MrHammeredProduction 2 weeks ago
I was 10 when i first heard this at school, it was the veteran's day assembly. I broke down crying in the assembly hall. Now here I am 3 years later and it still makes me cry.
11799O 3 weeks ago
this achlly made me cry
narwhalsarerangas 1 month ago
My choir sang this.. By the end everyone in the audience was in tears as were we ...
titanicbulldog 1 month ago
i would love to sing this for solo/ensomble... <3 so beautiful... pray for those who fought, and are fighting for our country.
halz14 1 month ago
I sang this at my grandfathers funeral. It's hard remembering the lyrics when you can't see through tears.
BelayParley 1 month ago
All of my male family have died in the wars that r country has been involved in my brother went missing in action in Afghanistan last year but now he has been found he is very I'll and may not live I am only 13 and this song helps me cope I sit there wondering why me why does my life need to be messed up then I remember all the mean things i said to him and cry please can someone give me some advice on how to cope I really need it
Thankyou Katrina xxxx
katrinapalser 1 month ago
Gotta remember this for choir.
kristomaster4 2 months ago
@kristomaster4 Me too.
Peacelovethagap 5 days ago
I need to remember this poem and this is a true pain in the ass.. no offense to the soldiers that fought.. but.. just had to say it for my sanity
max21214 2 months ago
Im a general veteran i trained this Lt
GODKILLA3 2 months ago
i live in this battlefield!
hail the belgian,brithish,french,canadian,... troops that have died for my freedom!
they gave their there today for our tomorow
thomastijn5 2 months ago
@thomastijn5 Actually.... in WWI, germany was not nazi, so you would still be free if they won. The germans didnt enter the war for greed, they were just allied with Austria Hungary, whose king got attacked by a Serbian untermensch.
ModellMeister 2 months ago
I PLAY COD AND I LIKE PWNING NOOBS
MrNinjaBananaz 2 months ago
@MrNinjaBananaz It's people like you that make me realise just how clueless the younger generation is
xoxoNINJASHITxoxo 2 months ago
ZedBazinga you're right I have a screan reader so I can't tell the differents. They both sound the same unless I go character by character.
gilbertcaleb08 2 months ago
If your a veteran and your reading this thank you for serving our army and keeping us safe through the night. Everyday I sing this song.
Also please don't leave dis respectful comments!
SnippetCodes 2 months ago
@SnippetCodes Your English is terrible.
ZedBazinga 2 months ago
@ZedBazinga how is the English terrible?
gilbertcaleb08 2 months ago
@gilbertcaleb08 "Your" is different than "you're".
ZedBazinga 2 months ago
Who composed this version by the way?
Turnips5 2 months ago in playlist Liked
War is for fools. Fuck the WAR!!
TheCozybear65 2 months ago
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Really , really so you don't care if you die. You don't care if were safe.
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Lest we forget.........* salute*
harmanpreet99 2 months ago
Sad that the author Lt Col. John McCrae, Canadian Army Medical Corps is not given proper attribution for writing the Poem In Flanders Fields. Every Canadian kid is required to memorize the poem in grade School. Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae Born November 30, 1872 Died– January 28, 1918, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
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Turnips5 2 months ago
24 people can be idoits cause so many heros gave thier lives for our country !!
Canuck703 2 months ago
I sung this at school in my choir
Iluvcatsanddogs 2 months ago
This song makes me cry every time I hear it. I may not know how awful the wars actually were (I'm 20 and only know what I learned in history class or what I studied myself) but to know how many brave soldiers died and more are still dying today is so sad and heart wrenching.
TwilightEnAmorada 2 months ago
I remember singing this is elementary school. My teacher really wanted to understand why we were singing it. Not for our own recognition but to honor those who it was written for.
rome34 2 months ago
who ever dose not like this obously dose not know what freedome costs so to whom ever hats this you need to see that freedom more than a word it is people fighting and dieing for us. so scew you people who hate this
lolzcandy221 2 months ago
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lolzcandy221 2 months ago
I just wish they would stop the war
brownieandjr 2 months ago
are you old? cuz is says 1915 loljust asking kk...
Diane5792 2 months ago
@Diane5792 Its a few lines, and its a simple poem. No need to panic!
bojandude 2 months ago
@bojandude ... but r u old?
Diane5792 2 months ago
MY TEACHER IS MAKING OUR WHOLE CLASS MEMORIES THIS SONG! BY FRIDAY omg
Diane5792 2 months ago
Today's generation does have a clue. I have a clue, I'm 15. R.I.P, Lest we forget <3
xDanielleee13x 2 months ago 23
@xDanielleee13x we do have a clue, when we had the two minute silence at my school everyone was silent and wearing poppies and people didnt forget
Alexlance1997 2 months ago
Beautiful, we'll never forget.
Greetings from Flanders.
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Fun Fact: the writer of this poem was actually in shock when he was writing this. He was on ambulence duty when his buddy, a few feet away from him, was hit with a shell and his other friend picked his peices up so he could get buried. When he was going back, he started to write.
1016jon 2 months ago
Gosh this beautiful...
Let us never forget...
maggie7896 2 months ago
I always feel like crying when I hear this song. We used to play this song evey year to honor the heroic people who died in wars to protect us in my old school. *Sniff Sniff* I am not an adult yet, really, so yeah I dont know what the wars were like. But I am mature enough to know that it was horrible. In my school, this remembrance day and week thing is just an activity to every kid, including my friends. It makes me so sad that they think like that...
Pingie11 2 months ago
today i showed my brother this song when he turned up his music and shoved this to the side i wondered why hardly anyone now adays has any respect for the men and women who risk their lives to keep us safe, or to the vetrans who experienced terrible terrible things so that we could live our everyday lives or the soilders who lost they're lives fighting for the same thing... I'm 16 and half the people I go to school with are complaining of our remeberance day celebration tomorrow... *sigh*
TehLycan 2 months ago
im singing to this school
VannesaLPS 2 months ago
Lil tits
XPownag 2 months ago
@XPownag ???
headcheese3 2 months ago
i love this video so poigniont
Englishkid95 2 months ago
Doing this in Choir!!! XDD
amyyoubumhole2000 2 months ago
thx SO much i have to sing this pretty soon and i couldnt find a disc!
1Misstj 2 months ago
So Sad i wish these young kids would take time to remember the soldiers who sacrifice themselves to keep freedom to our world and keep peace to our countrys (USA,CANADA,UK ETC) i wish there was no armys in the world :( so there will be no more wars :(
keenanfriday285 2 months ago
@keenanfriday285 doesn't japan no longer have an army??? i think that after WW2 they no longer had an army, that would actually explain a lot why they're so advanced in technology, their funds dont go towards nukes but towards education instead!
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jardinita 2 months ago
Remembrance Day is not all sad it is about honoring our military heroes but we should also enjoy life and the freedoms we all share in first world countries that some do not have, or died too young to enjoy. Life is a gift, freedom is too, enjoy it, especially on that day.
Insaneo78 2 months ago 10
@Insaneo78 completely agree with you, however i think some ppl take that too far... this is just my personal belief but I'm sure many will agree - at memorial assembly the ONLY music that should be playing is from the pipes, instead (especially at schools) we get techno beats and kids dancing while pictures of dead soldiers flash up on the screen behind them. i think that we should all calm down a bit and actually grieve, understand and appreciate, not just dance and laugh away.
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@shevadabest11 No arguments there. It is mostly a day of mourning but I believe a lot of people made their sacrifices so we could have more happy free lives which is why I think you should do something happy and enjoyable that day too but always be respectful.
Insaneo78 2 months ago
I think you're right
dorisqw15 2 months ago
I love doing this song for veterans day. At my school my Jazz Choir class has us guys sing it for all of the veterans who show up to our ceremony at our school and It makes me happy knowing we can do something for them.
TheBlazingQuilava 2 months ago
omg this song is so beautiful!!!
Im in chorus and we sing this song i almost starts cryin just listenin to it
HipHopChick545 2 months ago
This reminds me of my great grandpa Joe- thanks grampa- Canada thanks you.
meaghanclarkparent 2 months ago
O Canada.
meaghanclarkparent 2 months ago
It Does :(
dontbemeanful 3 months ago
Im Just Sad Because For Remebrance Day Im Singing This Song Which Might Make Me Cry :(
dontbemeanful 3 months ago
I love this song. It remembers me of my Grandfather and how he served our country
92rowergirl 3 months ago
Lest we forget. War is hell and it may be good for some to depend on failing memories to wipe the horrors from their minds, but for those who make these descisions it is good to have a very long memory. In other wars, thousands even millions can be lost. But today with so many nukes still hot in their silos a tiny mistake can cause entire nations to...disappear. Select your leaders wisely and never trust them too much and always test them for weakness to start war.
exenrontexas 3 months ago
I have to sing this song for choirs, such an amazing song!
TheGoetzells 3 months ago
We sang this song in my high school chorus class for Veteran's Day! It's such a pretty song with a sad meaning
breezybabii526 3 months ago
To better understand what the song is about, watch "Digging Up The Trenches"--it was on The Military Channel this morning. Next time on 10/26.
curtfrantz 3 months ago
This sounds simular to the version we sing in choir. O_O.
gilbertcaleb08 3 months ago
Yeah, this is in our choir...it is an amazing song.
yet, nobody understands...sad
Glassberry99 3 months ago
I had a flash autotuner going while singing this. LOL.
gilbertcaleb08 3 months ago
I sang along with it. We're singing this in choir and it's excelent.
gilbertcaleb08 3 months ago 4
In my opinion, this is a little too happy. But it's so beautiful... :'( It's also really different from the version we usually sing...
dreamarl 3 months ago
@dreamarl I know what you mean, and it did cross my mind once. But there's actually something really sad about it, especially with the choir. It goes back and forth from minor to major, but I think it's a good version.
rabidmonkeys36 3 months ago
@rabidmonkeys36 I agree that it's a wonderful version. I guess I'm just used to the version we sing here, and well, in my opinion, our version is sadder.
But hey. It's In Flanders Fields. It's for Remembrance Day. That's what's important. :)
dreamarl 2 months ago
i cant do it i cant do the high notes seriously and im going to sing this in choir thats why
ElishaGrace828 4 months ago
It's a beautiful song... But my music teacher re-composed it, and his version actually sounds a lot sadder... TT_TT But it's sad either way... Respect to all who died in the war.
AnnaBananaKooKooCake 4 months ago 2
Such a sad, sad song. Today's generation has no clue, no inkling, no preconception of how awful the world wars were. This nonsense out in the sandbox is kiddy stuff compared to Verdun, Somme, and Ypres.
aldoreshgaramok 4 months ago 31
@aldoreshgaramok I am of today's generation, however I appreciate, & acknowledge how tragic war really was, and still is. Especially war faught with such violence... It's so disappointing how students consider remembrance day simply as just another school day off.
iiBubblez 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok I'm not shure if that is a bad thing. That we have no clue i mean. I know the world wars were awful but i don't want to know how awful.
adervenisje 3 months ago
@adervenisje I think its definitely a bad thing. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
The aftermath of 9/11 is a sad reminder of that. It was practically WW1 all over again, in terms of the suppression of dissent, the abuse of patriotism to stampede citizens to war, the labeling of pacifists and objectors as traitorous and dangerous. And just like 1914 Europe, even Christian religious leaders pushed for war - despite the 5th Commandment being "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
aldoreshgaramok 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it" I totally agree but what i mean is that i'm happy to not live in a time were there is a world war.
adervenisje 3 months ago
@adervenisje That is exactly what I mean. Having knowledge of the horror of war makes you NOT want to engage it. You have sated your curiosity by the study of history, instead of harsh (or deadly) experience.
But it is not enough to "be happy." War is not some inexorable force, like the weather. It is performed by men, for the benefit of men. I am assuming you are an American or European. If so, you have elected representatives you can bring up your issues with. Tell them flatly, "No war."
aldoreshgaramok 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok the words wars WHERE!
agentxy4 3 months ago
@agentxy4 ...what?
aldoreshgaramok 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok the world wars, were
agentxy4 3 months ago
@agentxy4 Sir what are you trying to bring to the discussion? What point are you trying to make?
aldoreshgaramok 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok im saying the wars are still bad
agentxy4 3 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok SOOOOO NOT TRUE DUDE I am 13 and in my school we rgonna sing this for some veterans
danielarockstv 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok i might be wrong but u sound like ur complaining that we have no clue how awful the world wars were. Im actually very glad that me and my generation dont know it and my #1 wish is that our future generations will also never have to know it and go through it. and the wars today are no kiddy stuff buddy. we must understand one life lost is just as big a tragedy as a million, secondly, unless u have experienced both wars and fought in them, dont judge whats "real" and whats "kiddy"
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@shevadabest11 Such appalling, widespread ignorance is certainly worthy of complaint.
Modern wars in general are bad (e.g. the Congo), but the WoT, in the greater scheme of things, is far more wasteful of treasure than blood. The British Army lost in 24 hours at Somme 4x the KIA and nearly the same wounded as us in 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. High-tech industrial warfare has replaced the infantry charge and 40-pounder with air power.
As per your last sentence, WW1 ended in 1918.
aldoreshgaramok 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok how am i being ignorant? plz dont bother educating me in history im currently getting enough of it from my professor, i know when it ended and why it happened and the effects it has on us today and how many lives were lost, but that is not my point. unless u have actually experienced WW1&2 and today's wars, then dont make judgements cuz u cant even imagine what it like from ur computer screen. ppl are still dying and just cuz they're not dying by millions doesnt mean its "kiddy"
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@shevadabest11 Sir, you are not the first to bring up this obnoxious platitude about how we all must "experience" war before we can comment on it. I tell you flatly - No I don't. There is no human being alive who has fought in all three or those wars, so you are simply saying no one is permitted to speak. That isn't going to fly with anyone who studies history.
I honestly don't know how to convince someone who thinks a war with 1 million deaths is just as bad as one with 20 to 40 million.
aldoreshgaramok 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok im not saying no one is allowed to speak, actually we must speak and remember and appreciate it. but what I dont agree with is how u say today's wars are kiddy. From my view, I dont know how to convince someone that one death is just as tragic as 100 deaths.Our life is the most precious gift we have and today there are many people dying from war, in fact we dont even know how many. I dont mean to fight, just healthy educated discussion: how much we know about today's wars??
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok ex: remember the "huge" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?RECENTLY I just found out that on the east coast of Africa, there are 20 such spills every year!!! Another ex. 45000 ppl die every week(!!!) because of the coltan war in Congo. These are examples that I found out about RECENTLY and they have been happening for YEARS! Today's world is not as nice as it seems, I am just extremely blessed that I have been able to immigrate to Canada with my whole family and live a good life.
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok my point being is that you or me, i just feel like we cant say what was happening in WW1 is so much more tragic then what is happening today, I feel it would be an insult to those suffering from war today, cuz really, who are we to judge? today's wars are just as awful, that's all im trying to say, and yes the number of deaths is a big factor but to me, even one life lost is a huge tragedy that can b avoided, and i feel that one death is degraded if we label it as kiddy death
shevadabest11 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok I wipe ass with Verdun, I sneeze at Somme but godamnit do I respect the shit out of Ypres.
papashangofan 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok Sure, we may not have experienced the horrors of war, nor have we felt the terror felt by many veterans, and even people at home, but I can tell you for sure; we recognize the horror, and the significance of the first world war. We wear our poppies with pride, and respect. We see the sacrifice made for us, and our country, and we truly do honor that.
bojandude 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok That is true but it does not give you the right to tell the families of those that have died in said sandbox that their loved ones where killed in a war that you consider "kiddy stuff." I respect all our veterans, whether they served in the World Wars or at a small post in Afghanistan.
DeadpoolisCanadian 2 months ago
@DeadpoolisCanadian Emotions are a poor map on the road to truth. One need not abdicate higher thought, inquiry, and debate to "respect" slain soldiers - and death need not confer it. Furthermore, bereavement does not grant infallibility. Obviously, anyone who has lost a family member or close friend to war would believe it to be an earthshaking catastrophe. But believing in something doesn't make it true. And neither does believing that five thousand is greater than 10 million.
aldoreshgaramok 2 months ago
@aldoreshgaramok I do not believe that 5 thousand is greater than 10 million. I simply believe that you need to show some respect to all our veterans, past and present. Thank you, sir.
DeadpoolisCanadian 2 months ago
@DeadpoolisCanadian That kind of huff-puff isn't going to cut it. You need to bring facts and logic to your argument, instead of trying to shut down the discussion with pliable, feel-good twaddle about "respecting" veterans - which you have simply equated to agreeing with you.
aldoreshgaramok 2 months ago
i really believe this poem was never meant to be sung but your version and voices are lovely
lawrencewraith 4 months ago
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A final letter from the heart of a soldier. "My darling, tears flow as i write this to you. My final testament, with love so true. I will not see you even once more, I will fall today like those before. Do not cry, we will be together soon, when we are both in heaven, with the stars and the moon. I love you my sweetest, most precious dove, I promise I will watch over you forever,with God, from above." By: Giacomo Brao
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jamaldhard 4 months ago
we r singing this in choir
MarciandJanessa16 4 months ago
@MarciandJanessa16 Me too but I didn't find out til yesterday and it is so lovely
PrincessCupcake3 4 months ago
@PrincessCupcake3 It is very lovely!! Im a suprano so it sounds soo pretty with all supranos and altos=) ill post a video soon our concert is on the 29 so!!!
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@MarciandJanessa16 Oh ok cool :)
PrincessCupcake3 4 months ago
@MarciandJanessa16 you spelt soprano wrong.. just sayin.. and my choirs singing this too!
MN1girl1is1awesome 4 months ago
@MarciandJanessa16 My show choir is doing this! The soprano's complete this song. where it starts out "Scarce heard amid...." the song wouldn't sound right without the soprano's. I am a soprano also. Our concert will be at our veteran's day ceremony the 11. It will be absolutely amazing! My class fell in love with it as soon as we heard it:) Good luck!:) P.S. Soprano's are the best! ;)
LaurenAshley11223344 3 months ago
@MarciandJanessa16 Ok cool :)
PrincessCupcake3 4 months ago
we sung this in choir for veterans day and we had a concert today in our local church
for the 10th anniversery of 9/11
nick111138 4 months ago
We are doing this in choir too. I love it. It is so beautiful. Can you believe he threw the poem away? Thank goodness someone found it and published it.
Feisgirl5 4 months ago
@MrLtdodds I do understand - these visits are emotionally wrenching. Thanx for your kind words. Regards, Jens
jensww22 4 months ago
@jensww22 thank you. regards
MrLtdodds 4 months ago
@MrLtdodds I don't think I derserve this onslaught of verbal aggression. Also, I find your comments slanderous, implying things I never meant nor said. There is one thing, however, that I do think because it transpires thickly through your words: You actually think you are a better person only because you are a Belgian and I'm a German. I don't care too much because I have learned to live with that, having suffered racism by our European friends numerous times when abroad -and I was born in 64.
jensww22 4 months ago
@jensww22 i apologize. i just came back from visiting Ieper and was emotionally not in to good a state,(although it was not my first visit) and therefore i completely misunderstood what you meant. For what it is worth; i not only visited tyne cot,but also again the german cemetary at
langemark, and earlier this year the german cemetary in lommel and in Normandie,and i feel the same sorrow for the men of both sides.i really do. i do not hate the german people. not at all. i hope you understand
MrLtdodds 4 months ago
I just found an original piece of sheet music for this song in a book owned by my great great aunt.
Extremehackermike 5 months ago
@thomasijn5 So what is your message? That Germans are murderous bastards? Have you ever heard of what the oh so innocent Begians did in the Congo?
jensww22 5 months ago
@jensww22 do YOU know what we did in the congo? Congo vrijstaat was in the beginning THE PERSONNEL POSSESSION of leopold 2, a king we hated ourselfs! it was his mercenaries that did those horrible things! when it was passed over to the Belgian state, we build roads, railroads, many priests went there to teach and build hospitals! and one thing is for sure; WE DID NOT BUILD CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO GAS AND BURN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!
MrLtdodds 4 months ago
@jensww22 there are still bullitholes in the wall of our city courthouse were civilians were shot in ww1 AND ww2, my grandfather also was detained once!! you have absolutely no idea how bad it was!! i wonder what you would say if it would have been the other way around! nobody says all germans are evil, certainly not, but do NOT try to talk this evil right! germany betrayed our trust and friendship, twice. now we still want to be friends. do not betray us again by saying we "deserved"this attack
MrLtdodds 4 months ago
yo
EzmiKez 5 months ago
"In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force (1872-1918).
vik238 5 months ago
My dad and uncle and grandad died fighting in afganastan now my brother went to fight and is lost in action worst luck ever
katrinapalser 5 months ago
@katrinapalser you poor thing!
EzmiKez 5 months ago
@katrinapalser I will be praying for you and your family. I hope your brother is safe and that he will come back to you. God Bless you!
SuperBabybug 4 months ago
look at this by alana wilkie way better i balled my eyes out
mrsbomba1234321 5 months ago
for the fallen heroes who freed belgium(my country) from german reign
my city was bombed to the ground and german soldiers murderd 65% of the intire population dendermonde !
thomastijn5 5 months ago
Our senior chorus sang this for our Spring concert. I was so amazed by how emotional it was. I even cried, which isn't really normal for me.
GracefullyExpensiveK 5 months ago
it makes me realice the loved and ones we love die,war sall be no more if thee who dose will be sunded even the usa . our loved one's die cause war why can't everyone just love another please lord stop war.
locococo48 5 months ago
Je to krásné. Nechť to zde dlouho zůstane.
vitmu100 6 months ago
@Civilization224 war is the only way to settle this kind of conflict
Eddyisrich403 6 months ago
@JewlsMcfly77 As for the author's intentions we have to rely on tradition. However, I'm also inclined to believe in the writer's honourable motives. But that is not the issue. It is what others have made of the poem and that's propaganda staring you in the face with the sole purpose of justifying the continuation of the slaughter. The poem has lost its innocence. Sing it if it makes you feel good - I take my students to cemeteries (Allied and German). And now I rest my case.
jensww22 6 months ago
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JewlsMcfly77 6 months ago
@JewlsMcfly77 As for the author's intentions we have to rely on tradition. However, I'm also inclined to believe in the writer's honourable motives. But that is not the issue. It is what others have made of the poem and that's propaganda staring you in the face with the sole purpose of justifying the continuation of the slaughter. The poem has lost its innocence. Sing it if it makes you feel good - I take my students to cemeteries (Allied and German). And now I rest my case.
jensww22 6 months ago
@JewlsMcfly77 It was written in 1915, initially not intended for an larger audience, and then published in Dec. 1915 in "Punch", therefore clearly meant to bolster morale and to help the war effort, i.e. propaganda. Today it's a quarry for anyone's different purposes.
jensww22 6 months ago
@jensww22 it was written in the trenches by a Canadian Doctor named John McCrea during the second battle of Ypres. He wrote the poem after a fellow Canadian soldier ( his best friend was killed). The next day he sat by his grave and looked at all the crosses in the graveyard. He wrote it quickly out of the grief for the lost of his friend and it was never intended or was used for propaganda but his way of giving his dead comrades and friends a voice.
JewlsMcfly77 6 months ago
To those working in education: I use the song in my class to show how teachers in Britain are furthering a rather questionable my-country-right-or-wrong attitude and how they turn themselves into instruments of army recruitment centres.
jensww22 6 months ago
Read the third stanza. I believe it perpetuates old (?) hatreds. Occasional but repeated complaints by my students about xenophobic gibes and taunts while on school exchange in Britain are testament to that.
jensww22 6 months ago
@jensww22 do you know when and how the poem was written. because i also believe the last lines to symbolic and not to be taken to literally.
JewlsMcfly77 6 months ago
Nice poem, nicely put into music. For me as a German, however, the last lines are belligerent anf offensive. From the comments here (the rambling about bravery and sacrifice) I can only take home with me that people will never learn and that this poem laughs in the face of millions who, ultimately, have died for the silliness and ambition of old people.
jensww22 7 months ago
@jensww22 i am just curious why do you find the last verse offensive.
JewlsMcfly77 6 months ago
Had the urge to hear this poem. The words make me smile and hurt at the same time.
fizzypopism 7 months ago
nooit meer oorlog, plus jamais la guerre,no war ,nicht wieder krieg
yummiemirror 7 months ago
nooit meer oorlog plus jamais la guerre no war nicht wieder krieg
yummiemirror 7 months ago
The woman that sings in this is terrible. Clarke county high school choir sings this best.
sealogreg12 7 months ago
Je nádjerné že i v dnešní době je plno lidí ochotných zdát památku obětem 1. světové války.
vitmu100 7 months ago
as long as there is man, there is war. as long as there is war there is death. as long as there is dath, there is grief. as long as there is grief, there is no hope. but if we can have new hope we can be liberated from the chains of war.- Thomas Silcock
humanblade1 7 months ago
I'm suprised how many people here praise the soldiers who fought in the WWI and the cause they fought for (whatever the hell that might possibly be, you tell me). Of course, God bless them all. They didn't know any better than that they would serve their country and their loved ones indirectly, as opposed to the actual ratio of the War of a few inbred aristocrats, who thought rivers of blood were necessary to show off their military pride and power. I believe this poem is telling exactly this.
Vladimirovic 7 months ago
It's not about praising the war and ''its cause'', guys. It's about mourning the dead and the fact that the Great War didn't have any necessary/legitimate fundament to back up its ignition. They died for nothing. Nothing, but the desire to take revenge and show off brutal power of blood and steel of a few monarchists. May they all rest in peace.
Vladimirovic 7 months ago
@Vladimirovic The Germans and the Austrians were fighting for their country. Because Serbian terrorists killed the Austrians leader just as we did to Afghanistan to they did to Serbia if they had been quiet it would be cowardice. They fought for there country.Knowing they were about to take on the world for that cause. This isn't just about the Great War. Its about bravery courage. Veterans day, a day of mourning yet happiness as we may know the world is not full of cowards .
MrLittlelawyer 7 months ago
@Vladimirovic they died for their country for the defense of innocent lives. One of the greatest cause a man can fight for.
MrLittlelawyer 7 months ago
@Vladimirovic You don't know the cause yet you post this comment? Their bravery courage shall be remembered forever doing only the same as we would have.
MrLittlelawyer 7 months ago
@MrLittlelawyer Sure, I could sum up the causeS of the WWI by simply opening up a book on the basic fundament of the Great War. I am merely questioning THEIR cause, the cause of the working/middle class lads who were enrolled in the armies, led by common realpolitiker-aristocrats, who viewed them as grunts, worth less than their guns of wood and steel. Whatever that is, it sure doesn't outweigh the outrageous human losses.
Vladimirovic 7 months ago
@Vladimirovic Then question my country the US who had no business in the war at all. Though the Germans were torpedoing ships people forget that because of British sea mines Germans (who were fighting beside Austria against terrorism) were being starved to death in many of their cities. Our ships were warned not to go to Britain as it was hard for subs to tell the distinction between British and American ships. Their cause was so not to be called cowards and serve their country.
MrLittlelawyer 7 months ago
Comoventes a letra e a música, muito apropriadas para a famosa "geração perdida" -i- inglesa, francesa, americana, alemã e outras - nos campos de batalha da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Infelizmente, a Humanidade não aprende e vive cometendo os mesmos erros, os mesmos massacres.
chico00566 7 months ago
Belated farewell Claude Choules a part of history lost.
SirStokie 7 months ago
"happy" veteran's day? theres nothing happy about it...
rotflmfao567 8 months ago
singing this for the memorial day parade!!!
bffleiwf212 8 months ago
Jammer wat daar allemaal is gebeurt.
81ruledavid 8 months ago
Frank Buckles the last American Doughboy passed away this year at 110
thedonegan 8 months ago
i dont know how anybody could dislike this song. its so beautiful and just makes u really think about all those lives given for the freedom we all take for granted today.
SpunkyGreenM 8 months ago
Claude Choules RIP - the last tommy passed away
sigridrp 8 months ago
For every soldier who dies for any cause good and true there is another who comes to fight for that cause. As the light of a torch that never goes out. Let us be as brave as they were for to us they threw that torch. For war has a purpose that which is to defend ones self ,Innocent life ,and the rights of every person endowed upon them by their creator. Let fight for these things and nothing else. As Brave men before us did. Thank them and honor them.
MrLittlelawyer 8 months ago
I love this song
thecrazygirl2238 9 months ago
what does a song about getting high on opiates have to do with veterans?
IFknHateUTube 9 months ago
@IFknHateUTube Please tell me you're joking, and that you really aren't as stupid as you sound. Please, I still have some faith in humanity's general intelligence.
catarinamer 8 months ago
@IFknHateUTube The poppies in this poem don't have anything to do with drugs, dude. It is a sign of growing hope after destruction, since it only growns on plodges of land on which no considerate amount of other plants grow, which was also the case in Flanders during the WWI, since its landscape was robbed of its botanic beauty consequent to the constant shelling & bombing.
Vladimirovic 7 months ago
@Vladimirovic yeah but then they go back and harvest the dope from the flowers
IFknHateUTube 7 months ago
just because they lose their lives don;t mean their lose for ever
therealgotanks 9 months ago