1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all ...

“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 military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

This column would interest you in light of the recent holiday. Flowers speak a language that relies on color and symbolism. You know that red roses symbolize “love” while daisies indicate “innocence ...

Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired a soldier, John McRae, more than a hundred years ago, to write a poem with ...

I will start this Memorial Day Weekend with “In Flanders Field," the poem of war, cemeteries and bright red poppies, written by John McCrae in 1915. The poppies in Flanders fields in Belgium and ...

A poppy picked from Flanders Fields during the First World War and sent to a US soldier’s fiancée has been unearthed more than a century later. Harold Alfred Stivers pressed the delicate flower into a ...

A Canadian physician penned a poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. Then an American professor wrote her own poem and promoted the flower as a symbol of remembrance. Memorial ...