John McCrae’s world-famous poem, reflecting on the enormous sacrifices of the First World War, will be recited countless times this Remembrance Day, as it is every year. It’s etched into the hearts of ...

Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row" These words, penned by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian who served as a brigade surgeon for an Allied artillery unit on ...

In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, poppies blow near a barbed wire fence in Geluwe, Belgium. Red poppies were first symbolized as a means of remembrance by Canadian World War I soldier and surgeon ...

After the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas floated down into the trenches of World War I for the first time, a Canadian soldier saw something surprisingly hopeful. In the rolling fields nearby, ...

The Friday before Memorial Day is designated as National Poppy Day, commemorating service members. Poppy Day is celebrated around the world but The American Legion brought it to the United States by ...

1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all ...

Easter is the season of empty tombs and lilies, but the war-torn Lent of 2003 has kept my thoughts on full cemeteries and poppies. Here in continental Europe, the preponderance of public opinion and ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of World War I, the flowers endure as a symbol of war ...