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Georgia native Moina Belle Michael () started her career as an educator. She had enough family money to take a teaching job for a town (Goodhope, GA) that could not afford to pay a teacher. She eventually taught at the University of Georgia. She was on vacation in Europe when WWI broke out. While she was stranded overseas, she helped thousands of stranded Americans get safe passage back home then joined the YMCA Overseas War Worker because she was 48 years old and that was the only opportunity open to her as an “older woman”. In she read the poem “We Shall Not Sleep” by Col. John McCrae, M.D. (Later renamed “In Flanders Fields.”) and became inspired to write her own poem in honor of veterans.
In her autobiography, “The Miracle Flower: The Story of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy”, she recalled, “It seemed as though the silent voices again were vocal, whispering, in sighs of anxiety unto anguish…I pledged to KEEP THE FAITH and always to wear a red poppy of Flanders Fields as a sign of remembrance and the emblem of ‘keeping the faith with all who died.’”
From that day on she wore a poppy on her collar and became known as the “Poppy Lady.” She dedicated the rest of her life to promoting the wearing of poppies to remember veterans and inspired international campaigns sel
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Introduction
John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” resonated deeply with the public, even in the then-neutral United States. Three years later, when the United States had entered the conflict, Moina Michael (–), an educator and volunteer trainer of nurses, wrote “We Shall Keep the Faith,” as a response of the living to the call of the dead in McCrae’s poem. Soon afterwards, she launched the tradition of selling and wearing red poppies to aid and honor wounded war veterans. Michael’s autobiography, The Miracle Flower: The Story of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy, published in , is dedicated to the late Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Compare the mood, tone, and content of this poem with “In Flanders Fields.” Who is speaking in Michael’s poem, and how is it an answer to the summons from McCrae’s poem? How exactly do “we keep the Faith / with All who died”? The central verse concerns the red poppy. How does Michael reinterpret its meaning? What does it mean to say that “We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought / In Flanders Fields”? What was that lesson, and how can it be taught? If we fail to teach it, will those who fell have died for naught?
Oh! You who sleep in “Flanders Fields,”
Sleep sweet—to rise anew!
We caught the Torch you threw
And, holding high, we keep the F