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 ...

“In Flanders Fields” was written by Lt. Col. John McCrea of Canada in May 1915 after the funeral of a friend killed in the Second Battle of Ypres. First published that year in the British ...

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 ...

Paper poppies fill a field outside the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. The walls of the Menin Gate bear the names of more than 54,000 World War I soldiers who died before ...

In the poem, “In Flanders Field,” McCrae gives the visual of poppies growing above and between makeshift graves and writes about how “We are the Dead” who were only just alive that morning.

Why We Wear Poppies On Memorial Day. McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field,” was written as a reaction to a cluster of poppies he spotted on fields littered with dead and wounded soldiers after ...

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military personnel. The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by John McCrae.

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 ...

What was the World War I poem about red poppies? In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae. In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky ...

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 ...