Flander's Fields is a perfect French Rondeau.
On the covenant with the dead:
Doctor says coming to America may be 12-year-old's best chance
Marine Cpl. Ian Kutner always will carry the shrapnel that hit him when his best friend, Lance Cpl. Aaron W. Simons of Modesto, was killed in a rocket attack in northern Iraq.
And every day he strives to carry out the pledge the Marines made the day before Simons died to save a dying Iraqi girl.
