An archive of the Magrath Trading Store News.The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the Wes Balderson to digitize and display this content.On May 3,1915 a physically exhausted and emotionally drained Canadian surgeon who had buried a good friend just the day before, sat down on the back of an ambulance on the edge of a battlefield and poured out his anguish in a hastily scribbled poem that capture d-forever the death and desolation which surrounded him. • , • The doctor was,Lieut-Col. John McCrae and the poem, which would have been lost forever if someone hadn’t scooped it up after lie tossed it away, was called In Flanders Fields. It has become one of the most famous war poems ever written and the poppies that he w...