Flander's Fields is a perfect French Rondeau.
On the covenant with the dead:
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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.