Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area.

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below… Two things bring ...

The red poppy came to symbolize the blood shed by those who fought and those who continue to fight for our country following the publication of the wartime poem 'In Flanders Fields.' The poem was ...