Jim Rolfes was a veteran selected to go on Midwest Honor Flight Mission 26 out of Sioux City on Tuesday, June 3. Rolfes has ...

CROWN POINT -- After accepting a plaque from Lake County commissioners honoring her son who died in Iraq last week, Marie Lisa Miranda said it wasn't until a family member found a poem her son ...

Though often listed among the poets of World War I, Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) was roughly twenty years older than the soldier generation ... Binyon wrote “For the Fallen,” his famous elegy for ...

The Remembrance Day poem, In Flanders Fields ... helping wounded French soldiers. He wrote For the Fallen in Cornwall shortly after the Battle of Marne: They shall grow not old, as we that ...

For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which recognizes fallen soldiers whose “names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.” ...

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a surgeon with Canada's First Brigade Artillery who had just buried his friend and fellow soldier, to write a poem to speak for the fallen and issue a call to action for the living. The poem was ...

was published in May 1915 and is written from the perspective of fallen soldiers lying in their graves. Legend has it, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae himself was dissatisfied with ...