Major League Baseball will honor fallen U.S. Armed Forces members with a special patch today. 

Players will take the field wearing a red poppy flower patch on their jerseys. 

The origin of using a poppy to remember those who died in war comes from the 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields" written by Canadian poet and World War I [[ One ]] soldier Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 

This marks the fifth year MLB teams have worn the commemorative patches for Memorial Day.