“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 ...

The symbolism behind the poppy flower started with a world war and prose. British Lt. Col. John McCrae penned the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" in 1915 after his friend, a Canadian medic, died in ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

Altoona Area High School Lavendia Guo sculpted a heart out of foam and then covered it in poppies for her part of a Veterans Day project led by Saint Francis’ Center of Fine Arts. Mirror photo by ...

Fran Bull s installation In Flanders Fields is making its third appearance in the Rutland area, this time at Rutland s Chaffee Art Center. The large multifaceted congregation of works by the Brandon ...

Veterans Day, which we're marking today, commemorates the end of World War I. In Europe, they call it Armistice Day, and these photographs are of celebrations in London in the form of red ceramic ...