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In Flanders Fields

The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.

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A Long Farewell.... remembering..a past generation.

Remembering; some will not forget the generation who had their lives dominated by the First World War. This year for the first time there will be no First World War veterans at the memorial service. Harry...

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In Flanders Fields... the poem

In Flanders Fields - a poem by Dr. John McCrae 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...

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The Human Cost of War in Iraq - Eyes Wide Open Exhibit

It is difficult to comprehand that the war in Iraq was not ended long ago.  When the fiasco began, the American Friends Service Committee created a traveling exhibition to help translate sterile casualty...

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Poppy Day

In 1918 at 11 am on the 11th of November the 11th month,the guns finaly fell silent as the ceasfire was signed bringing an end to World War 1. Every year since then the world has stood as one to remember...

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