New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial

1100 Louisiana Blvd. SE Albuquerque, NM 87108

The Memorial Gardens are open everday from 6am-10pm.

The Visitors Center is open Friday-Sunday from 9am-3pm.

Admission is free.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

You can see this poem at the Veterans Memorial by “Flanders Fields” along with a response by Moina Michael.

Moina’s Response

By: Moina Michael
1915

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heros never dies.

Moina was the one to conceive the idea of wearing red poppies in honor of those who died.

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