Memorial Day weekend may prompt visions of the red poppy known as Flanders or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas). This beautiful flower inspired the poem In Flanders Fields, written by the ...

The poppy we are familiar with today is believed to have come from the World War I poem “In Flanders Fields,” by John McCrae. But McCrae wasn’t a poet by profession, he was a doctor. Courtesy photo ...

Hundreds assembled outside the Guelph Civic Museum on Thursday to watch as Governor General David Johnston and Mayor Cam Guthrie unveiled a new bronze statue of Lt. Col. John McCrae commemorating the ...

This poem was composed at the battlefront on May 3 1915 during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium. On May 2, 1915, John McCrae, a surgeon with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery was saddened by the ...

The flower serves as a symbol of remembrance for service members killed in combat, particularly those from World War I.

This work by John McCrae, in its small way, has an effect as great as any poem. It touched people, and gave them a symbol. Much greater poets have achieved much less.

Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...

In Flanders Fields gripped the imagination of its first readers when it was published in 1915 in Punch magazine, a British satirical paper popular with troops during the First World War. Within months ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SANNERVILLE, FRANCE - JUNE 05: Poppies blossom in the grass as 280 paratroopers take part in a parachute drop onto fields at ...