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‘In Flanders Fields’: How a patriotic poem became an anti-war anthem

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The Washington Post FIRST 41m ago ‘In Flanders Fields’: How a patriotic poem became an anti-war anthem
Written by a Canadian soldier as a call to arms, it's now often excerpted to convey the futility of war.