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 ...

In the 20th century, the blood red blooms came to symbolise blood spilled on the fields of Flanders in the First World War. A poppy field at sunset (Image: Julie Smart) Like those who marched off ...

Among annual poppies, the corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, is perhaps the most iconic. Also known as the field or Flanders poppy, it has become a powerful symbol of remembrance for those lost in war.

Poppies flourish in freshly dug earth which is why they bloomed so quickly in the shell-pocked fields of Flanders. In 1921, the poppy became the symbol of remembrance for the British and Canadian ...

Today marks the 109th anniversary of the start of the bloodiest battle in British history, the Battle of the Somme which began on Saturday 1st July, 1916.

The president is making clear that, rather than start a new war, he’s hoping to end the one that Tehran is waging against ...

The Flanders Field poppies. The idea to use the poppy as the symbol of remembrance came from the poem ‘In Flanders Field’ by Canadian Doctor John McCrae. While stationed in the fields in Ypres, McCrae ...

The four-acre poppy field at Pleasant Hill Blueberry Farm was planted as a memorial, with the first seeds placed in 2018.