Why Canadian veterans are conflicted about Remembrance Day

This is a CBC podcast. In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row that mark our place, and in the sky the lark Folks still bravely singing fly, scarce heard amid the guns below. In Flanders Fields, John McRae wrote his iconic poem on the battlefield in 1915. A day after one of his closest friends was killed and hastily buried among the wild poppies of Flanders in Belgium.

We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved. And now we lie in Flanders fields, take up our quarrel with the foe, to you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies Grow in Flanders Fields.

In Flanders Fields, read by Leonard Cohen, courtesy of Legion magazine. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayad. And welcome to the second of two programs based on the Canadian War Museum's oral history project entitled In Their Own Voices. I uh I want to talk to you a little bit about your your post-war life, but I have to ask you, and I'd love to know more about D-Day.

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