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 ...

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 poem was composed at the battlefront on May 3 1915 during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium. On May 2, 1915, John McCrae, a surgeon with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery was saddened by 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 ...

During a recent visit to the LBJ Library in Austin, I discovered that one of President Lyndon Johnson's favorite poems is "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. While researching the poem, a remarkable ...

In the poem “In Flanders Fields” the poet John McRae describes the poppies that sprang up on the World War 1 Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. Poppies have become a ...

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 ...

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 ...