“In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row" These words, penned by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian who served as a brigade surgeon for an Allied artillery unit on ...

Hundreds of thousands of bright red poppy flowers are back on the National Mall in D.C. to honor fallen U.S. military members this Memorial Day Weekend. The Poppy Wall of Honor pays tribute to the 645 ...

After the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas floated down into the trenches of World War I for the first time, a Canadian soldier saw something surprisingly hopeful. In the rolling fields nearby, ...

Despite being synonymous with lighthearted fun and the start of the summer cookout season, Memorial Day is also a lot more than just that. Above all else, the federal holiday is about commemorating ...

Above are the first few lines from the well-known poem, “In Flanders Field.” A Canadian soldier, John McCrae, serving during World War I wrote the poem. At the time, he was stationed in the Belgian ...