Flanders Field is a United States military cemetery near Waregem, Belgium. Buried in this cemetery are the bodies of 368 members of the armed forces who died in World War I (1914-1918). Canadian poet John McCrae wrote the famous poem, "In Flanders Fields"


McCrae, pronounced muh KRAY, John (1872-1918), was a Canadian physician, soldier, and poet. He contributed verses to Canadian periodicals before World War I. But he did not become famous until 1915 when he published "In Flanders Fields" in Punch, an English magazine. His poems were published after his death under the title In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems (1919).
 

Strenee's site has been closed for some time, however, her graphics are perfect here and have inspired the additional page for this poem.