John McCrae Quotes
In Flanders fields the poppies grow / between the crosses, row on row.
John McCrae, 1872-1918, Canadian Soldier and poet, In Flanders Fields, 1915
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The Congress had applauded his message vigorously.
The only soldier ever so honored
Churchill saw before many others that technology and weaponry had changed the nature of warfare. At the time the military leadership of all the major powers were pursuing 19th century tactics with 20th century weaponry including mass bayonet charges against machine guns behind barbed wire. Churchill and other civilians, although they had legal control over the military, had little de facto tactical control. As a politician he became an itinerant meddler in military tactics thereafter.
This Quotation is inscribed on the Atatürk Memorial in Turakena Bay, Gallipoli and at the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra, Australia. Most of the Allied casualties at Gallipoli were Australians. Few nations have memorialized enemy troops with the same dignity and respect as their own dead heroes as Ataturk did—another unusual action of this great statesman.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
