Opera's future lies in balancing preservation and innovation, as Opera Philadelphia proves with bold programming, accessible ...

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

Since ancient times, poppies have been used for a variety of purposes and given a variety of symbolic meanings. Red and white ...

The red poppy has been a symbol of the American Legion Auxiliary since the 1920s. The poppy is held dear to the hearts of our veterans and should be to ...

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

Abbreviated as GAR, the organization for Union army veterans was similar to other modern ... the wartime poem 'In Flanders Fields.' The poem was written by Lt. Col. John McCrae, while serving ...

The name refers to the famous war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, written by the Canadian John McCrae. The name is also a reference ... Milan and Mads Pedersen. Other favorites such as Philipsen and ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields ... gas attack leading each other to a dressing station.

Today is Veteran’s Day in America. The original reason for this holiday was to commemorate the end of World War I on the eleventh hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. In the United ...

Col. John McCrae, the man behind one of the most famous poems in the English language, In Flanders Fields. “It was written in about 20 minutes, at 7 a.m. on May 3, 1915, during the Second Battle of ...