Every year, on Memorial Day, my father would come home with a red poppy in his coat lapel and my mother would recite the poem she had memorized when she was a schoolgirl during World War I:“In ...

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

“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, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead.

"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 ...

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.

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.

After losing a close friend and seeing unspeakable carnage at the Battle of Ypres in World War I, John McCrae, a Canadian army officer and physician, began his work: “In Flanders Fields, the ...

Kelowna, B.C.'s Field of Crosses display honouring fallen soldiers in conjunction with to Remembrance Day will be in place until Nov. 12.