Liberty Memorial Armistice Day Celebration

The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, marked the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War One on Sunday. One of the most striking events at the museum is a massive light installation which appears to cover the memorial in 5,000 poppies. The flowers signify remembrance after Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae saw them growing in a battle-scorched field in Waregem, Belgium and was inspired to write the poem “In Flanders Fields.”

The illumination covering the memorial in poppies ran for nine consecutive evenings through Veterans Day to recognize the nine million soldiers worldwide who died during World War One.  More coverage of how Kansas City commemorated the armistice centennial at the National World War I Museum and Memorial on Veterans Day is available here.