Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McCrae pictured with his dog in an undated photo. Serving as a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a ...

This work by John McCrae, in its small way, has an effect as great as any poem. It touched people, and gave them a symbol. Much greater poets have achieved much less. The British wear poppies on ...

During a recent visit to the LBJ Library in Austin, I discovered that one of President Lyndon Johnson's favorite poems is "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. While researching the poem, a remarkable ...

). The poem "In Flanders Fields" never sounded so poignant, and I was reminded of another beautiful poem about the sadness and futility of World War I written by the British poet Roland Aubrey ...

Friday is Veterans Day in the U.S., an official holiday honoring Americans who served in the military on the anniversary of the World War I armistice with Germany on Nov. 11, 1918. This year it also ...

This poem was composed at the battlefront on May 3 1915 during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium. On May 2, 1915, John McCrae, a surgeon with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery was saddened by the ...

Dear Readers: Today is Memorial Day. In honor of all those who have served in the armed forces, we are printing this famous poem from World War I, written in 1915 by Lt. Col. John McCrae, M.D. McCrae, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 magazine ...