This summer, on a trip to Europe, I had the chance to see for myself those Flanders fields, near the Belgian town of Ypres, where hundreds of thousands of men were slaughtered in a few square ...

Memorial Day: White Crosses at Flanders FieldA&E Art Memorial Day: White Crosses at Flanders Field Mon., May 28, 2012 Flanders Field American Cemetery, Belgium (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Photo by ...

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead.

“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 ...

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below,” and ...

A poem, “In Flanders Fields,” inspired the use of poppies to remember veterans.

The illegal commercial broadcasts (Belgium’s official radio network is state-owned and noncommercial) are nourishing because of a genial conspiracy between the broadcasters and listeners ...

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 / The larks, still bravely singing, fly.

Much like a scene from the poem In Flanders Fields, rows and rows of white crosses have been placed in Kelowna, B.C.’s City Park ahead of Remembrance Day. The Field of Crosses project is an ...

In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly.