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Thread #122213   Message #2677848
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
11-Jul-09 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: Wiil Ye Go Tae Flanders - best version
Subject: RE: Wiil Ye Go Tae Flanders - best version
The strange thing is how a song about a completely different time and a completely different war came to be transformed into such a powerful and moving soundtrack to the Great War - and this happened not at the time of the Great War, but two generations later.

Three widely separated historical times brought together to shed light on each other.

Here is the website of the "In Flanders Field Museum" It's quite something, and you'll never hear that song the same way again.