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IEPER, Belgium — Eighty-five years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, memories of World War I linger in the fields of Flanders. This area saw some of the most brutal trench warfare in ...
IEPER, Belgium — “The best way to carry out good propaganda,” wrote the late British Cabinet Minister Richard Crossman, “is never to appear to be carrying it out at all.” Crossman’s words echo through ...
YPRES, Belgium — Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of World War I, the flowers endure as a symbol of war dead, ...
Let us look back at that moment in time. We find the Canadian army physician, John McCrae, working in a dugout in the side of a hill, his dressing station. Near the dressing station are graves in a ...
YPRES, Belgium -- A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality ...
YPRES, Belgium (AP) — A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The ...
More than a century later, a World War I soldier who disappeared at the height of the bloodbath in 1917 was laid to rest in Europe on Wednesday. Pvt. Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a stretcher bearer with ...
Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow — Between the crosses, row on row." The famous flowers are among many reminders of the region's connection to the Great War. Amid monuments and headstones in this ...