World War I fighting officially stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11 in 1918. The halt in fighting, valid as of 11 a.m. local ...

Tuesday is known as Armistice Day — or Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Britain, Australia, New ...

GMT it had already been an incredibly moving day as I had never seen so many poppies in my life, and there were thousands of ...

Red poppy flowers were dropped onto soldiers, politicians and onlookers from across the world who gathered Tuesday in western Belgium for a ceremony to commemorate the end of World War I.

I came to Ypres to better understand what my grandfather went through and how it shaped him, my father and perhaps even me ...

Flores de amapola roja fueron arrojadas sobre soldados, políticos y espectadores de todo el mundo reunidos en el oeste de Bélgica el martes ...

"Experience the Last Post at Menin Gate, Ypres — a moving WWI remembrance where history, silence, and tribute to 54,000 ...

If I should die, think only this of me,” wrote English poet Rupert Brooke, in 1914. “That there’s some corner of a foreign ...

Aime van Nieuwenhove, a wealthy lace merchant in the pretty Flemish town of Ypres, was a worried man in November 1914. As a local councillor he had organised the evacuation of thousands of civilians, ...

Reporting from Ypres, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-preh”), ...