The most well known war poem of all time was penned by a Canadian, dr. John McCrae who was working as part of an advanced surgical team in the concrete bunkers close to the front at Flanders field... after one of his best friends died in his arms ... he walked away and 20 min later became one of the world’s most well known poets... the monument near the concrete bunkers has a monument showing the poem ‘Flanders field’ in john’s original hand.... to see the small red poppies growing in the mud amongst the horrors the he must have seen as a doctor at the front....to me attests to the human ability to see beauty in a place where so many forget what beauty even is.... This visit has given Remembrance day a whole new and deeper meaning for me. (aja said you can tell he was a doctor because you can't read his writing :D)
for a downloadable original picture of no man's land in Flanders field (from the Library of Congress)taken in 1919
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Looks like hell on earth. You see why the Canadians went there to plant trees.
For a link to Google Maps to see where Flanders field is:
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Aja and I are totally on the same page. I always wondered how pharmacists could read the doctors prescriptions. It must be a seperate class in pharmacy schooling, Deciphering Doctors Writing 101.
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