This Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, members of the Capt. Lester S. Wass American Legion Post No. 3 will be offering red poppies in front of a number ...

I was in the foothills of Siswan, stealing in by twilight to watch fireflies by a minor check-dam; as the moon deepened ray by silver ray, one by one the jugnoos came to flicker on bushes as if an inv ...

In the poem “In Flanders Fields” the poet John McRae describes the poppies that sprang up on the World War 1 Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. Poppies have become ...

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military personnel. The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by John McCrae.

The poppy is more commonly tied to veteran remembrances in Europe, partly because of the World War I poem, "In Flanders Fields."However, it also has North American roots, and you might see people ...

What was the World War I poem about red poppies? In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae. In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The ...

A copy of the "In Flanders' Field" poem plate as well as an original Dec. 8, 1915 edition of Punch Magazine in which the poem was published sit in a glass case on display at the RCA Museum at CFB ...

The British wear poppies on Armistice Day because a Canadian doctor wrote a poem that mentions poppies. It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.