Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...

During our school years we are taught many things which help us throughout our lives: reading, writing, arithmetic (but maybe not algebra). When reading poetry we are taught to read line by line. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row" These words, penned by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a ...

Up until the 1960s veterans groups used the red poppy as the symbol of Veterans Day. The symbol comes from a poem written by a Canadian doctor John M. McCrae in 1915: In Flanders Fields." McCrae ...

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.

Sprint star Jasper Philipsen stepped in for his team captain Mathieu van der Poel to win the In Flanders Fields cycling classic for hosts Belgium on Sunday. Philipsen won the race formerly known as ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of World War I, the flowers endure as a symbol of war ...

A person looking for battlefields will never run out of places to visit, especially in Europe. One of the most interesting is around the ancient city of Ypres ("Ieper" to the Belgians), located in ...

Fran Bull s installation In Flanders Fields is making its third appearance in the Rutland area, this time at Rutland s Chaffee Art Center. The large multifaceted congregation of works by the Brandon ...