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More than 100 years later: WWI soldier who disappeared in 1917 buried in Belgium. Natalie Neysa Alund. ... at the heart of Flanders Fields in Belgium, The Associated Press reported.
For a small country, Belgium has quite a few outsized attractions. It is known for beautifully preserved medieval cities, the cosmopolitan European Union capital of Brussels, dense green forests and a ...
A ceremonial guard fired three volleys into the sky Thursday as a final salute for Australian Pvt. Alan James Mather, who was buried 93 years after he fell in Flanders Fields.
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 ...
Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1915: Poppies, the hue of human blood, blow in the gentle breeze. The scarlet blooms decorate thousands of Allied soldier graves.
In Flanders Fields, ... On Thursday, European leaders are gathering in Belgium to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I — the bloodbath that ended millions of European lives.
President Barack Obama tours the American cemetery at Flanders Field with Belgian King Phillippe and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, far right, in Waregem, Belgium, on March 26, 2014.
When I first visited Flanders Fields several years ago, it was springtime. ... U.S. troops didn't arrive in Belgium until June 1917, after hundreds of thousands of French, ...
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 ...
Every year, on Memorial Day, my father would come home with a red poppy in his coat lapel and my mother would recite the poem she had memorized when she was a schoolgirl during World War I:“In ...
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Scouts from across Belgium honor veterans in Waregem, a city located in the heart of Flanders Fields, Nov. 11, 2017, at the eleventh hour, during the 99th ...