Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McCrae pictured with his dog in an undated photo. Serving as a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let us look back at that moment in time. We find the Canadian army physician, John McCrae, working in a dugout in the side of a hill, his dressing station. Near the dressing station are graves in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...