America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

Today marks the 109th anniversary of the start of the bloodiest battle in British history, the Battle of the Somme which began on Saturday 1st July, 1916.

This Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, members of the Capt. Lester S. Wass American Legion Post No. 3 will be offering red poppies in front of a number ...

The 2025 inductees shared the stage with rodeo legends in Medora’s annual tribute to Western heritage and humor.

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military personnel. The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by John McCrae.

"In Flanders Fields" became one of the most quoted poems from the war with, even decades later, school children memorizing it. Flanders Field was a common name for battlefields in Belgium and France.

In Flanders Fields is still recited each year at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada — more than a century after it was written during the First World War. Here’s a look back at the soldier ...

A copy of the "In Flanders' Field" poem plate as well as an original Dec. 8, 1915 edition of Punch Magazine in which the poem was published sit in a glass case on display at the RCA Museum at CFB ...

We want to give them that respect in Flanders Fields and express our eternal gratitude for their efforts.” By the time the Great War ended in 1918, more than 66,000 Canadians had been killed and ...

But I have a different historical signpost in mind this morning, and the 44 th U.S. president figures in that one, too: Every five years, I write an elegy to a famous poem about war.