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Flanders fields
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Phrase for the battlefields of World War I, and the origin of the Flanders poppy to commemorate the dead (see *Armistice). It derives from a poem, In Flanders Fields, written by Canadian surgeon John McCrae in May 1915 at the Ypres salient: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place.
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