“In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row" These words, penned by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian who served as a brigade surgeon for an Allied artillery unit on ...

[Listen to song, with the video, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edyVLwWSJ9k.] Scarce heard amid the guns below…. I was reminded of this by Poppies, a Russian ...

Wildflowers have been few and far between this season due to the dry winter. But some have discovered a poppy field in the tiny community of Elizabeth Lake. (Raul Roa / Los Angeles Times) Nature ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of World War I, the flowers endure as a symbol of war ...