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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before we move on to the day's news, serious and silly, we want to pause for a moment to note that it's Veterans Day. As President Obama's declaration states, on this day Americans "pay tribute to our ...

In Flanders Fields gripped the imagination of its first readers when it was published in 1915 in Punch magazine, a British satirical paper popular with troops during the First World War. Within months ...

A century after it was written, "In Flanders Fields" — the solemn lament of war, sacrifice and obligation by John McCrae that's carved into the marble masonry of Parliament Hill's Peace Tower — will ...

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 ...

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 ...