An Oscar-winning actor who publicly backed the controversial "white poppy" movement that argues Remembrance Day should be "decolonised", has sparked fury from war heroes. Sir Mark Rylance, who ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

An annual campaign to support war veterans, widows and other soldiers was launched this week when a poppy was presented to the Governor. Andrew Murdoch received the symbolic adornment from the Royal ...

MEMORIAL. ONE CENTRAL KENTUCKY FARM TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEIR POPPY FIELD TO BRING AWARENESS TO MEMORIAL DAY. THE POPPY IS A SYMBOL OF REMEMBRANCE FOR FALLEN SOLDIERS. A SIGN AT SPRINGS FARM IN BOURBON ...

A Canadian physician penned a poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. Then an American professor wrote her own poem and promoted the flower as a symbol of remembrance. Memorial ...