ext_15605 ([identity profile] mycrazyhair.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jeffreyab 2006-11-11 04:30 am (UTC)

Interesting. It's amazing how your mind plays tricks on you. I was 100% convinced that the poem started as follows:

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row
We are the dead, short days ago
We lived, drew breath, saw poppies blow
In Flanders Fields.

Which doesn't actually make a lot of sense, when you realize that the poppies grew after the battle because the lime changed the pH of the soil, so that only the poppies thrived.

Thanks.

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