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 ...

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The new $10 bill has prompted scores of complaints from Canadians who maintain that the poem has been misprinted; that the first line should be "In Flanders fields the poppies grow."This, in turn ...

Q I am trying to locate the poem “In Flanders Fields.” If you find it, would you be so kind as to print it in time for Memorial Day? –A.G., Williamsburg In Flanders Fields” is one of the ...

Story of 'In Flanders Fields' poem was poignant (Your letters) Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 1:24 p.m. Paper poppies fill a field outside the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.

McCrae had published other poetry, and submitted “In Flanders Fields” to The Spectator Magazine, which rejected it. Undaunted, he sent the poem to Punch magazine, which published it in ...

In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep, though poppies ...

Obama also discussed the famous poem about the grave site — "In Flanders fields, the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row" — and stressed the final lines that quote from the dead: ...

In Flanders Field is a famous poem. Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous ...

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 ...