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 ...

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 ...

YPRES, Belgium – 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 dead, ...

“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 ...

Again, poppy flowers are weeds, technically, so it’s not uncommon to find them in fields out in the wild. But that’s also why they symbolize rebirth and resilience; they don’t die quickly and pretty ...

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 ...

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 added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register.

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 ...

The flower that symbolises lives lost in conflict, the poppy, is disappearing from Flanders fields where the First World War was fought, experts have said. Research by ecologists has revealed dramatic ...

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