Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McCrae pictured with his dog in an undated photo. Serving as a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a ...

The British wear poppies on Armistice Day because a Canadian doctor wrote a poem that mentions poppies. It’s a small thing, that poppy-wearing, when compared to the horror of World War I, with the ...

A micro-artist has written the world's smallest poem after etching 'In Flanders Fields' on a speck of his war hero grandfather's military badge - in the eye of a needle. Graham Short, 77, spent 300 ...

A century later, John McCrae's piece remains one of the most famous wartime poems, and has become a hallmark of Canadian culture. Below is a line-by-line analysis of "In Flanders Fields." Click on ...