Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To ...

A person looking for battlefields will never run out of places to visit, especially in Europe. One of the most interesting is around the ancient city of Ypres ("Ieper" to the Belgians), located in ...

1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all ...

). The poem "In Flanders Fields" never sounded so poignant, and I was reminded of another beautiful poem about the sadness and futility of World War I written by the British poet Roland Aubrey ...

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow — Between the crosses, row on row." The famous flowers are among many reminders of the region's connection to the Great War. Amid monuments and headstones in this ...

This work by John McCrae, in its small way, has an effect as great as any poem. It touched people, and gave them a symbol. Much greater poets have achieved much less.

Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw ...

YPRES, Belgium – 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 dead, ...