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

Sault Ste. Marie honored and mourned U.S. military personnel who died while serving their nation with Decoration Day ...

The visionary creations of the English poet and painter William Blake inspired later writers such as Walt Whitman and James ...

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 ...

Residents and staff at the Redding Veterans Home recognized fallen soldiers this Memorial Day ... One resident, Michael VanCleemput, recited the war poem “In Flanders Fields.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Records indicate 881 of those fallen soldiers enlisted in North Dakota ... s mission statement is based on a line from a poem by Archibald MacLeish titled “The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not ...

By taking time out during the weekend to honor fallen veterans ... that grew in fields where countless soldiers had been buried in modern-day Belgium. The poem was published in 1915, three ...

As he honored his fallen friends Saturday afternoon, he was particularly moved by the reading of the poem "Memorial Day ... the U.S. Army for 13 years. "Our soldiers are not just fighters ...