In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

She was particularly affected by the last lines — ‘If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep/though poppies grow in Flanders Fields’ — and went out to search the shops of New York for ...

Col. John McCrae of Canada. The poem, “In Flanders Fields,” describes blowing red fields of poppies among the battleground of the fallen. The VFW was the first veterans’ organization to ...