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YESTERDAY:
Thursday, 17 May

TODAY:
Friday, 18 May

TOMORROW:
Saturday, 19 May

Ascension Day (Christian exc Orthodox)
Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka (US)
Father's Day (Germany)
Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
National Day (Norway)

Atatürk and Youth Day (Turkey)

In Flanders Fields

by Lt.Col.JohnAlexander McCrae,MD

(30th November 1872 – 28th January 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.

In Flanders Fields was written on 3rd May 1915.
McCrae himself was not killed in Battle but died of a combination of Meningitis and Pneumonia caught whilst actively serving in a field hospital.

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