


Why you’ll see poppies on this (and every) Memorial Day
You've read the poem. Now read about the author who treated the wounded, and tended to the dying, in Flanders Field during World War I.

World War I
Forgotten valor: Nurses near the front lines of World War I
Months before most U.S. forces joined the fight, two women had earned the Distinguished Service Cross.

African-American heroes are a part of a vanishing World War I legacy
Carol Moseley Braun on how a century-old conflict helped launch a civil rights movement
