This Saturday millions of people around the country will be observing Veterans Day and honoring the people who served and are still serving in the military, protecting the country and our way of life.

“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 poem’s powerful ...

While solemn Veterans Day remembrance ceremonies were taking place at the National WWI Museum and Memorial on Tuesday, people were also there observing the holiday by making replicas of poppies. The ...

PERHAPS it is fitting, then, that those ruined, blood-soaked fields were also the source of what has become a symbol of remembrance for the casualties of war: the poppy.