This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
Every November, the British royal family dons red poppy pins, a poignant symbol of remembrance rooted in World War I. This ...
He wrote a famous poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, on the death of a comrade. Extracts of the poem are read, over footage showing aerial views of war graves today and images of death and burial ...
As the story goes, McCrae performed the 22-year-old’s burial service himself and noticed how poppies grew rapidly around the ...
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...
The graves at Quantico are organized by date ... and they are willing to make it. “In Flanders Fields” is narrated by “the Dead,” but it is not a pacifist poem. The final stanza is an ...
– The Toronto Sun’s Chris Doucette, a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces who served in the Royal Canadian Regiment, is in ...
As the story goes, McCrae performed the 22-year-old’s burial service himself and noticed how poppies grew rapidly around the soldiers’ graves at Ypres. So, he began writing In Flanders Fields ...