Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all American veterans—by revisiting the story of the vermilion poppies of Flanders Fields. Flanders Fields is the name for WWI ...

More than 2000 handmade poppies will blow in a Geraldine field to commemorate Anzac Day. Each individual poppy was made by Geraldine woman Diana O'Donnell in an attempt to recreate Flanders fields ...

Flanders is an extremely compact region, roughly the size of Connecticut ... there's a Special Last Post Ceremony, a Poppy Parade and a Great War Remembered concert at St. Martin's Cathedral. The In ...

McCrae wrote “In Flanders Field”—poppies are also known as the Flander poppy—a short, three-stanza poem that gives a stark look at death and war. In the poem, “In Flanders Field ...

McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field,” was written as a reaction to a cluster of poppies he spotted on fields littered with dead and wounded soldiers after the Second Battle of Ypres.

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 ...

It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the trenches and the mustard gas and the murderous machine guns. But in its small way, “In Flanders Fields” has ...

The red poppy has come to symbolize remembrance and hope following the 1915 publication of the wartime poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ...

Our veterans devoted their lives to safeguarding our freedom. Devote some time on this special day to thank them. Remember the red poppies of Flanders' fields, and honor them all.

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 ...