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Old Nov 15, 2012 | 02:49 PM
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ala_xfire
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Default Re: Thank you Veterans on your Day...

180, I read your moving poem " In Flander's Fields", and something didn't ring quite true.
I had learned that poem in grade school as "In Flander's fields, the poppies grow" - not "blow"

so I did some research :
Here is an image of the original handwritten document :



To me, that reads "grow", not "blow"
 
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