The poppy we are familiar with today is believed to have come from the World War I poem "In Flanders Fields," by John McCrae. But McCrae wasn't a poet by profession, he was a doctor.

Why We Wear Poppies On Memorial Day McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field,” was written as a reaction to a cluster of poppies he spotted on fields littered with dead and wounded soldiers after ...

McCrae wrote “ In Flanders Field ”—poppies are also known as the Flander poppy—a short, three-stanza poem that gives a stark look at death and war.

Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1915: Poppies, the hue of human blood, blow in the gentle breeze. The scarlet blooms decorate thousands of Allied soldier graves. Graves of mud transfused with the blood ...

“In Flanders Fields” was published by a British magazine in 1915. Three years later, McCrae died of pneumonia, but his poem pops up–just as do red poppies–year after year.

Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields.

A poem, “In Flanders Fields,” inspired the use of poppies to remember veterans.

Dear Annie: A few years ago, you printed a column about why we hand out poppies on Memorial Day. It had something to do with a poem from the first World War. Now that I have grandchildren old ...

Poppies grew on churned soil and grieving Lt. Colonel John McCrae wrote the poem Flanders Fields inspired by those blooms.

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 ...

Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of the First World War, the flowers endure as a symbol of war dead, in ...

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 ...