Four handwritten copies of John McCrae's immortal poem In Flanders Fields, held at McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine, were ...

May 25—PICKENS COUNTY — There are several traditions associated with Memorial Day in America, but one in particular — the red poppy — stands out. The poppy we are familiar with today is believed to ...

McGill University's Osler Library holds four copies of John McCrae's poem, each one speaking volumes about how the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...