# Nov 11

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-11/602609>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 11, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-11/602609 "2011-11-11T17:04:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Da\_Mikster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Da\_Mikster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_Mikster)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-11/602609/1 "2011-11-11T17:04:34Z")

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The day that ended “the war to end all wars”… except it didn’t

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.

by John McCrae, May 1915

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-11/602609/2 "2011-11-11T17:34:25Z")

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The American Cemetery at Flanders Field:

[http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ff.php](http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ff.php)