Remembrance Day poppies will start popping up around Britain very soon in the run-up to Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. Every year on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the ...

On November 11, British citizens (the Queen included) will honor veterans by wearing a crimson poppy pin. Here we look at what Remembrance Day is and how the poppy become the emblem in the U.K ...

The red poppy has come to symbolize remembrance and hope following the 1915 publication of the wartime poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen military heroes.

A Canadian physician penned a poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. Then an American professor wrote her own poem and promoted the flower as a symbol of remembrance.

The red version of the poppy is what is most commonly used for this meaning (of memorial and remembrance of soldiers). But poppies come in many different colors, and all have different meanings ...

Worn on Armistice Day, now Remembrance Sunday, the White Poppy was produced by the Co-operative Wholesale Society because the Royal British Legion had refused to be associated with its manufacture.

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.

Millions of people in the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand will wear red poppies on Nov. 11 for what is still referred as outside the U.S. as Remembrance Day or ...

The poppy is a striking symbol of remembrance (Picture: Julian Eales/PA Wire) Remembrance Day poppies will start popping up around Britain very soon in the run-up to Armistice Day and Remembrance ...

Memorial Day — one ... they "wear a poppy with pride." The poppy is more commonly tied to veteran remembrances in Europe, partly because of the World War I poem, "In Flanders Fields." ...