Entry into World War I ceremony by the United States World War One Centennial Commission at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri. Oct. 1-2, 2016 - WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio April 20, 2016 ...
In Kansas City, Missouri the iconic World War I Memorial which towers above the city, is being lit with thousands of projected poppies this week in memory of those who died in the Great War. How did poppies come to represent WWI? According to Smithsonian author Erin Blakemore, after the Se...