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 ...

In the poem, McCrae described how "the poppies ... Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." To this day, the poppy is worn in remembrance and used to raise funds for numerous veterans ...

Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day ... John McCrae, a famous wartime poem, referenced poppies in his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in ...