You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.

John McCrae, the author of "In ... though poppies grow / In Flanders fields." "In Flanders Fields" became one of the most quoted poems from the war with, even decades later, school children ...

OTTAWA - War poet John McCrae ... imagines McCrae at the moment he looks up from the notebook where he has just signed his name to what would be published as "In Flanders Fields." ...

Veterans Day, on the other hand, is a day to honor ... World War I and inspired by Canadian soldier John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915. In Flanders Fields In Flanders ...

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 ... throughout the winter. Plant with ...

Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area.

“Take up our quarrel with the foe.” Those historic words from In Flanders Fields penned by John McCrae in 1915 resonate poignantly but sharply with Canadians visiting sites in France and ...

Poppies grow well in the Midwest and often by now are showing their colors. The red poppy, called the Flanders poppy, is just ...

Alan Messer Johnny Cash is indisputably one of the greatest songwriters of all time. In five decades of recording and ...