Wandering Mystic Meditation From Flanders Fields

He was born in the small city of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1872. He was the son of a military officer and the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He was a doctor, yet his lasting legacy comes to us from the brutality of war and from a poem that still speaks a century after his death.

John McCrae studied in his home province at the Royal Military College and the University of Toronto. He later worked as a professor and surgeon on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, he started writing poetry...