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 ...
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 poem ...
Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...
Before we move on to the day's news, serious and silly, we want to pause for a moment to note that it's Veterans Day. As President Obama's declaration states, on this day Americans "pay tribute to our ...
Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...
SANNERVILLE, FRANCE - JUNE 05: Poppies blossom in the grass as 280 paratroopers take part in a parachute drop onto fields at Sannerville on June 05, 2019 at Sannerville, France. Veterans, families, ...