John McCrae — a remark

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“I am really rather afraid, but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience.”

Capturing the moral compulsion that overrode personal fear · Letter to a friend, on volunteering for war, 1914

About John McCrae

John McCrae

30 November 1872–28 January 1918

John McCrae was born on 30 November 1872 in Guelph, Ontario, then a prosperous and growing town in Canada’s province of Ontario. He died on 28 January 1918 at Wimereux, France, before the war that made his name famous had ended. In the short span between those dates, he became several things at once: physician…

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