Fields: Flanders Fields and Sri Lanka

fields: His family was fleeing the country civil war, according to CBC. Why John McCrae In Flanders Fields still resonates Canadian war poem, In Flanders Fields, to be honoured I remember every November, more specifically around Remembrance Day, the teachers used to assign us the task of creating poppies with construction paper... and we used to cut it out and stick it around the walls, said Jegatheesan, whose family first settled in Toronto Flemingdon Park neighbourhood when he was 4. The 30-year-old immigrated to Canada in 1990 as a refugee from Jaffna province in Sri Lanka. They had the poem In Flanders Fields in a poster all over the school. Remembrance Day Canadian identity Vathanan Jegatheesan says Lt.-Col. I remember reading it, I remember seeing commercials on TV that explained the In Flanders Fields poem, but I didnt understand the significance of the poem and the symbolism behind what the poem was talking about until we had members of the Canadian Armed Forces come to our school to give the presentation about the importance of Remembrance Day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.