“In Flanders Field” was ... It inspired songs by Canadian composers Michael Roberts and Jon Brooks and the American John Philip Sousa. Proceeds from the sale of poppies were used to benefit ...

A red poppy adorns a wooden cross over a plaque with the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae at ... a 1968 commemorative stamp. It inspired songs by Canadian composers Michael Roberts and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – An heirloom seed company has researched the reason why red poppies became connected to veterans day and given KTAL permission to share the story with you.

But the poppies adopted this meaning because of the war poem "In Flanders Fields," written by the Canadian physician, Lt. Col. John McCrae. It was at the second battle of Ypres, Belgium ...

The Poppy is more commonly tied to veteran remembrances in Europe, partly because of the World War I poem, "In Flanders Fields." However, it also has North American roots, and you might see people ...

The red poppy has come to symbolize remembrance and hope following the 1915 publication of the wartime poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ...

Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area.

It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the trenches and the mustard gas and the murderous machine guns. But in its small way, “In Flanders Fields” has ...