National World War I Museum and Memorial President Matthew Naylor on the poppy flower and its significance to ... Clip Of 100th Anniversary of U.S. Entry into World War I World War I and Poppies.

Intense fighting during World War I decimated Europe’s physical environment, causing thousands of poppies to bloom where battles once raged. (Gary Houston, CC0 1.0 ) ...

In 2012, Lynn Berry set out to knit 120 poppies to honour her father. Six years later, she and her team have one to mark every Australian life lost in World War I … and then some.

But in the U.K., a larger initiative called 14-18 NOW is working to make sure that the war is not forgotten by commissioning artwork about World War I. Poppies and other exhibitions will pop up ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — 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 ...

A hundred years after the start of World War I, 888,246 handmade red flowers are filling the moat at the Tower of London — one flower for each British or colonial life lost during the war.

More than 100 houses, in a West Yorkshire town, that were home to men who served in World War One are displaying posters for Armistice Day. People living in the homes of the men who never returned ...

The first nationwide silence in Britain was held on 11 November 1919 – one year after World War One – when King George V asked to observe a silence at 11am.

A two-minute silence is held annually on Armistice Day, which marks the end of World War One in 1918. People also wear pins shaped like poppies, the symbol of remembrance, to pay tribute to fallen ...

A display of ceramic poppies will again go on show at the Tower of London, to "reflect on the lasting legacy of conflict" and mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. More than five ...