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Ford: Poppies don't cover the fact we are failing so many veterans in need
Another Remembrance Day has come and gone, with it the solemnity and the hushed voices, the recitation of John McCrae’s iconic poem In Flanders Fields. The poppies disappear from lapels and ...
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John McCrae: The solider, surgeon and poet whose words inspired the Poppy Appeal
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story. In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a ...