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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 68076, member: 59"]Interesting. Did you know he also wrote <i>In Flanders Fields</i>?</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, that poem was about Horatio Lord Nelson when he was commanding the vessel The Captain in the 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars. So it doesn't really have a connection to the Spanish-American War 100 years later (that I can see, could certainly be wrong.) I couldn't find date for when McCrae wrote it either, darn it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 68076, member: 59"]Interesting. Did you know he also wrote [I]In Flanders Fields[/I]? Unfortunately, that poem was about Horatio Lord Nelson when he was commanding the vessel The Captain in the 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars. So it doesn't really have a connection to the Spanish-American War 100 years later (that I can see, could certainly be wrong.) I couldn't find date for when McCrae wrote it either, darn it.[/QUOTE]
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