The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent ...

The poem was published in Punch magazine later ... There is another opportunity to wear them, though: National Poppy Day falls on the Friday before Memorial Day, and it's become popular to mark ...

In the poem, McCrae described how "the poppies blow ... of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." To this day, ...