http://libertyladybook.com/2009/11/11/poppies/ a B-17 bomber crew, the OSS, and a wartime love story Fri, 18 May 2012 17:26:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://libertyladybook.com/2009/11/11/poppies/comment-page-1/#comment-2346 Nell Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:16:23 +0000 http://libertyladybook.com/?p=1690#comment-2346 "In Flanders Fields", a Canadian WW1 battlefield poem by an army doctor from Ontario was not introduced to the United States at the end of the war as implied. Nor was it published in November by the Ladies' Home Journal itself. It was included in a large paid full-colur advertisement for Bauer & Black Co. part of a series of patriotic merchandising illustrated by Philip Lyford's painting "Flanders Fields", the little poem mis-titled (originally appeared in England, Punch magazine December 8 issue, called In Flanders Fields, author at that time not known to editors.) B&B even included inaccurate information about Dr. McCrae...When the poem reached the States as it joined the war, it was set to music by such as Sousa, and citizens wrote "replies"/Answers of varying quality and send them to local newspapers. “In Flanders Fields”, a Canadian WW1 battlefield poem by an army doctor from Ontario was not introduced to the United States at the end of the war as implied. Nor was it published in November by the Ladies’ Home Journal itself.
It was included in a large paid full-colur advertisement for Bauer & Black Co. part of a series of patriotic merchandising illustrated by Philip Lyford’s painting “Flanders Fields”, the little poem mis-titled (originally appeared in England, Punch magazine December 8 issue, called In Flanders Fields, author at that time not known to editors.) B&B even included inaccurate information about Dr. McCrae…When the poem reached the States as it joined the war, it was set to music by such as Sousa, and citizens wrote “replies”/Answers of varying quality and send them to local newspapers.

]]> http://libertyladybook.com/2009/11/11/poppies/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 Kathy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:23:26 +0000 http://libertyladybook.com/?p=1690#comment-1280 I remember her telling this poem too. Great post. I remember her telling this poem too. Great post.

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