“In Flanders Fields, where poppies blow, between the crosses row on row.” The words are spoken every Canadian Remembrance Day to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of soldiers for their country. Few poems are able to capture the ugly truth of war better than “ In Flanders Fields” by Sir John McCrae. But who was he and what did his poem actually mean? Written during World War one, the poem expresses the sorrow, loss and determination to remember those who had fallen before