MARIETTA – Set in the heart of Harmar Village is a ball diamond that has seen neighborhood play for almost 100 years but, within the last three, Flanders Field has been filled with new life. Flanders ...
1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all ...
MARIETTA – This time last year, the baseball infield at Flanders Field in Harmar was overgrown, the bathrooms weren’t open and the playground equipment was showing its age. But thanks to donations ...
Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...
Contributing writer Sheri Anderson told a fascinating story in our pages about tracing the war experience of her grandfather's brother, one of the 368 buried in Flanders Field, where the poppies blow.