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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Residents and staff at the Redding Veterans Home recognized fallen soldiers this Memorial Day. On the morning of May 26, they had a ceremony paying respects to those who’ve died in service. There was ...

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.” ...

McCrae wrote the poem to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the conflict, particularly those who died in Flanders. Amid the death and destruction, poppies sprouted among the soldiers’ graves and ...

Red poppies are a global symbol of remembrance to honor fallen soldiers. "The imagery of the ... Ypres – around the time he wrote his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." Later, McCrae died ...