Today I rode in a black hawk helicopter over the poppy fields in southern Afghanistan with Brigadier General John Nicholson, Secretary Robert Gates and a few other folks. I thought of that famous ...

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses ... Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie, / In Flanders fields.

He published his poem, giving voice to the fallen soldiers buried under those clumps of poppies, in Punch magazine in late 1915. It became a regular reading at memorial ceremonies and one of the ...

In Flanders' Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies growBetween the crosses ... Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders ...

A medical evacuation helicopter lands in a poppy field and awaits soldiers wounded in a bomb blast April 25 in the village of Salim Aka in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Three soldiers were ...