In Flanders Fields

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In Flanders Fields
John McCrae

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This war poem was written on May 3, 1915 after McCrae presided over the funeral of his friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer. McCrae worked on the poem for several months and it was first published anonymously in Punch on December 8, 1915. The poem has become a prominent symbol of remembrance in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially Canada, as well as in the United States.

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Versions of In Flanders Fields include:

"In Flanders Fields" in Punch, December 8th, 1915
"In Flanders Fields" in Patriotic pieces from the Great War (1918), edited by Edna D. Jones
"In Flanders Fields" in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917), edited by George Herbert Clarke
"In Flanders Fields" in In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919) by John Alexander McCrae
"In Flanders Fields" in Canadian Singers and Their Songs (1919), edited by Edward Samuel Caswell
In Flanders Fields (1921), illustrated by Ernest Clegg and with an introduction by William Thomas Manning
"In Flanders Fields" with musical arrangement in 114 Songs by Charles Ives, 1922
"In Flanders Fields" in Armistice Day (1927), edited by Anne Putnam Sanford and Robert Haven Schauffler