"The Flanders Field American Cemetery is the only American World War I cemetery in Belgium. It is also the smallest of the permanent American military cemeteries in Europe, occupying a site of only 6 acres southeast edge of the town of Waregem.
The Cemetery is situated on a battlefield where the U.S. 91st Division suffered many casualties in securing the wooded area called "Spitaals Bosschen" a few hundreds yards to the east. Before advancing into Belgium, the U.S. 91st and U.S. 37th Divisions had been engaged in heavy fighting during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the Lorraine region of France, some 200 miles to the south. Both divisions received orders in October 1918 to join the French Army in Belgium and assist in the operations launched there on 28 September 1918 by the Group of Armies of Flanders under the command of Albert I, King of the Belgians. [More]: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1989647/flanders-field-american-cemetery-and-memorial
A young soldier, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson, who was delivering the mail, watched McCrae write in his notebook. Allinson recalled that “His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmre’s grave.” When McCrae completed the poem, he handed his pad to Allinson, who read it and thought it captured the scene perfectly. Amazingly, McCrae was dissatisfied with it and tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer retrieved it. McCrae worked on the poem for months before considering it ready for publication. He sent his poem In Flanders Fields to The Spectator magazine in London, where it was rejected. It was then sent to Punch magazine (a British satirical paper popular with troops during the War) which published it – anonymously, without McCrae’s name on December 8. 1915. However, Punch did attribute the poem to McCrae in its year-end index. Continues .... ----McCrae himself never lived to see his poem’s post-war legacy. He died in France of cerebral meningitis on January 28, 1918, and was buried with full military honors. ---- https://hsvgazette.com/visit-flanders-fields/
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In Flanders Fields -John McCrae 1872 – 1918
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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"The Flanders Field American Cemetery is the only American World War I cemetery in Belgium. It is also the smallest of the permanent American military cemeteries in Europe, occupying a site of only 6 acres southeast edge of the town of Waregem.
The Cemetery is situated on a battlefield where the U.S. 91st Division suffered many casualties in securing the wooded area called "Spitaals Bosschen" a few hundreds yards to the east. Before advancing into Belgium, the U.S. 91st and U.S. 37th Divisions had been engaged in heavy fighting during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the Lorraine region of France, some 200 miles to the south. Both divisions received orders in October 1918 to join the French Army in Belgium and assist in the operations launched there on 28 September 1918 by the Group of Armies of Flanders under the command of Albert I, King of the Belgians. [More]:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1989647/flanders-field-american-cemetery-and-memorial
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----McCrae himself never lived to see his poem’s post-war legacy. He died in France of cerebral meningitis on January 28, 1918, and was buried with full military honors.
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https://hsvgazette.com/visit-flanders-fields/
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