IN FLANDERS FIELDS by Major John McCrae

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A tribute often used at Remembrance Services to commemorate our fallen soldiers. This moving poem by Canadian Army Surgeon, Major John McCrae, is set to a slide show of photographs of world War One (WW1), or the Great War. A unique piece of background music helps the mood.
The music is a compilation of Ghosts of Culloden by Isla Grant, British Grenadiers and Flowers of the Forest.

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.

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[yukonnahanni]

To this day ,

 Many have upheld

[DuffThe]

Least we forget

[dlepagexnow]

Haunting...very moving adaptation of the poem.

Lest We Forget

[Tiegan2]

What can I say except "Just Brilliant", certainly brings a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye.

[nunyabeeswax11]

Beautifull...just wonderfull

[canniejannie]

Yes, very well done. The music really mixed in with the video clip and gives you a shiver.Brilliant

[EtiveThistle]

The music compilation was really haunting. The photograph sequence illuminates the poem very well.