The British wear poppies on Armistice Day because a Canadian doctor wrote a poem that mentions poppies. It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the ...

A century later, John McCrae's piece remains one of the most famous wartime poems, and has become a hallmark of Canadian culture. Below is a line-by-line analysis of "In Flanders Fields." Click on ...

). The poem "In Flanders Fields" never sounded so poignant, and I was reminded of another beautiful poem about the sadness and futility of World War I written by the British poet Roland Aubrey ...

“In Flanders Fields” was written by Lt. Col. John McCrea of Canada in May 1915 after the funeral of a friend killed in the Second Battle of Ypres. First published that year in the British magazine ...

As this year’s Remembrance season and its tributes fade, and the little symbolic poppies are gently discarded for another year, here is a coda to all the sadness and pride that they evoked. The poem ...