Remembrance Day ... John McCrae, a famous wartime poem, referenced poppies in his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields".

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

Thousands of students from across the country are pledging to recite a century-old war poem as Remembrance Day approaches. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

Today is Veteran’s Day in America. The original reason ... came from Canadian John McCrae’s World War I poem “In Flanders Field” and its famous first line: “In Flanders Fields the ...