John McCrae statues to be unveiled a century after In Flanders Fields

Long overdue.....

I can't say that I'm very impressed by that bronze. Is it my imagination or did they make more poignant, more emotive memorials eighty-ninety years ago? The Canadian memorial of the Second Battle of Ypres, the sculptures at Vimy, The Royal Newfoundland Regiment's baying Caribou at the Somme all bring a tear to the eye. This one of McCrae is a bronze of a guy.

It almost looks corny, considering what our artists are really capable of.

It doesn't measure up (to me, anyway). Look at the sort of memorial that our people are capable of:

The McCrae sculpture looks like folk art. ... not impressed ...

I totally agree, with what we were (are) capable of the McCrae statue looks chintzy....but, on the positive side, they finally got around to erecting them....maybe a century or so late but.....

Agreed.

We are capable of much more on both counts.

I agree that it doesn't look that good, but a bronze gets better with age.

The Samuel de Champlain statue in Qu�bec City, at 117 years old, looks great... Charles de Gaulle, not so good.

Maybe, that is the true measure of the men.