“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The hauntingly ...

The corn poppy is a pesky weed, a sweet, delicate garden flower and, for the past century, the emblem of the human cost of war. The custom of wearing paper poppies to remember that cost has waned in ...

Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired a soldier, John McRae, more than a hundred years ago, to write a poem with ...