Tuesday, November 14, 2006

News at Eleven: About the politicization of [John] McCrae,

particularly with Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan, [David] Kilgour says, "The poem is written from a standpoint of a pacifist. But I don't know how someone can read the last [verse] and think McCrae was opposed to fighting tyrants. I think if he was alive now he would have supported our troops in Afghanistan."

from Hour.ca: Proud poppy legacy

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