The poem was published in Punch magazine later ... Americans owe the tradition of wearing a red poppy on Memorial Day to Moina Michael. She was a professor at the University of Georgia who was ...

In the poem, McCrae described how "the poppies blow, between the crosses ... and began a poppy distribution program in 1924. Just before Memorial Day in 1922, the VFW held its first poppy ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day ... the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields.

Jane, is there a quote from your poem 'Poppies' that you'd like to talk about? JANE: "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone." I think that's a way of ...