Leonard Cohen: In Flanders Fields

"We will remember them."

recited by Leonard Cohen

poem written by:  Canadian field surgeon  Dr. John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872-January 28, 1918) 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