Yesterday was Veterans Day. I started the day by reading “In Flanders Fields” to my students. Most of them heard the poem in high school, although not all. I know my voice choked up as I read this ...

Today’s Star Spangled Salute honors Veterans, Veterans Day, and The Poppy. You’ve been handed a poppy, but what does it mean? Inspired by the World War I poem “In Flanders Fields,” in which the ...

Russell Peltier is a language instructor at Enji-Maajtaawaad day care at Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. He joined London Morning with his grandsone to recite In Flanders Fields in ...

Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...

Scarce heard amid the guns below. When John McCrae wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’ on May 3 rd 1915, he discarded it. Initially displeased with his work, it wasn’t until months later that fellow soldiers ...

On the morning of Dec. 13, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet were watching the Battle of Fredericksburg unfold from their headquarters on Lee Hill. The killing would become especially ...

I have to admit…August is my least favorite month! By now, I am so tired of the heat, humidity and the unrelenting mosquitoes. I take a minimalist approach to working in my garden – only doing the ...

August Has 2 Birth Flowers to Choose From—Here's What They Symbolize originally appeared on Parade. August birthdays are here and there’s no better way to celebrate than with the August birth flowers ...

On Friday, Aug. 1, VFW members and ladies will be standing at the door of many of our local businesses distributing poppies for our annual Buddy Poppy Drive. Among all the flowers that evoke the ...

On May 1, 1865, newly freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, held a parade of 10,000 people to honor 257 dead Union soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave. The former slaves had unearthed ...

Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area. The story of the poppies ...