Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial
The cemetery contains 411 graves of American soldiers killed in
World War I Lt. Colonel John McCrae M.D. wrote "In Flanders Fields" after the 2nd Battle of Ypres during which the Germans used chlorine gas on the Canadian line April 22, 1915
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.
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/places/ypres-salient-monuments.htm In the Ypres Salient battlefields there were approximately 90,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers fallen whose remains could not be identified for burial in a grave marked with their name.
Henri Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium contains the graves of 7,992 members of the American military who died in
World War II.
American Battle Monuments Commission
http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials#.VVf6JY3bL5o