In Flander's Field the Poppies Grow....

In the trenches of World War I in 1915, physician John McCrae saw first hand the devastation of war, and after a close friend died at the Second Battle of Ypres, McCrae decided to memorialize what he saw.

What came out of McCrae’s vision was “In Flanders Field,” possibly the most famous or memorable poem about war that has ever been written. What came out of McCrae’s poem was the most memorable image of the “Buddy Poppy.”

His image of the poppies blowing in the wind between the crosses that marked the deaths of 6,000 Canadian soldiers in Belgium’s Flanders Field, helped create the tradition that the Veterans of Foreign Wars still honor today.

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