This cemetery is located on the southeast edge of town in Waregem, Belgium and is the only American World War I cemetery in Belgium.  There are 411 American servicemen buried or commemorated there with many of the casualities fallen at Spitaals Bosschen, an action of the Ypres-Lys Campaign by the 91st Infantry Division in the closing days of WWI. The American Battle Monuments Commission maintains the six acre cemetery which was provided in perpetuity by the Belgian government.  The headstones are aligned in four symmetrical areas around the white stone chapel that stands in the center of the cemetery.  The side walls of the chapel are inscribed with the names of 43 missing American servicemen who have no known graves. Flanders Fields was a name referencing the fierce battlefields of World War I that took place in the region of the old Flanders County.  The Canadian War Lt.-Co Ammar, John McCrae wrote the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" on May 3, 1915 after witnessing the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, the day before. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. — Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)