(DAY 4)

I memorized the poem “In Flanders Fields” in grade six (not by choice) without realizing it had international significance.  The McCrae site is where the Guelphite John McCrae, a medic, originally wrote the poem. I think I read somewhere that he had thrown it out and someone else rescued the poem from the trash. After our too-short guided tour was finished, Eric and I rented bicycles and rode to a few more memorial sites; this was our first stop.