Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area.

You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.

When a close loved one dies there is appropriate grief. Because of our collective loss there has been set aside a day to ...

The Poppy is more commonly tied to veteran remembrances ... school children memorizing it. Flanders Field was a common name for battlefields in Belgium and France. In Europe, unlike America ...

THE GRAY-HAIRED FELLOW WAS ONCE a high school second baseman with a determined spirit but weak bat. He later missed Vietnam ...

Chicago Public Schools high school students are blending art and history to make a public display for Memorial Day. At Lane Tech High School, a different kind of garden is blooming.

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools high school students are blending art and history to make a public display for Memorial Day. At Lane Tech High School, a different kind of garden is blooming.

Poppies grow well in the Midwest and often by now are showing their colors. The red poppy, called the Flanders poppy, is just ...

The red poppy, called the Flanders poppy, is just one of the many ... and deep mahogany. Imagine having a field of these in all the beautiful shades. Poppies, with their papery thin blossoms ...

Each year, the Gerald B. H. Solomon National Cemetery holds a Memorial Day Ceremony, which honors and celebrates the men and ...