Trucks in streets of London
Have you noticed a Red Poppy to the truck? It is that time of year...11th of November, British people honor fallen troops by wearing a crimson poppy
The poppy has been a symbol of Remembrance for over 100 years. The poppy became a symbol of Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future in the aftermath of the First World War.
As the story goes, during World War I, after a particularly bloody battle in the fields of Flanders in Belgium, thousands of bright red flowers appeared. Poet John McCrae, a lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, who had just lost a friend to the war, was so moved by this spontaneous bloom that he wrote a poem about the flowers' resilience, titled “In Flanders Fields”:
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.
The 1915 poem was instantly popular, inspiring the Royal British Legion—a U.K. charity, which supports veterans and their families to this day—to sell millions of handmade poppies. Thus began the "poppy emblem" and the first Poppy Appeal: a fundraising event to raise money for war vets, held each November in honor of Remembrance Day.
Similar to Memorial Day in the States, Remembrance Day, or "Poppy Day," falls on November 11, and honors the lives and memories of fallen troops.
Text was taken from:
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a10392...
And by the way similarly 11th November we honor our fallen troops in Latvia...As they participated in the same war against the same enemy but in the other part of the world.
Trucks in streets of London
Have you noticed a Red Poppy to the truck? It is that time of year...11th of November, British people honor fallen troops by wearing a crimson poppy
The poppy has been a symbol of Remembrance for over 100 years. The poppy became a symbol of Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future in the aftermath of the First World War.
As the story goes, during World War I, after a particularly bloody battle in the fields of Flanders in Belgium, thousands of bright red flowers appeared. Poet John McCrae, a lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, who had just lost a friend to the war, was so moved by this spontaneous bloom that he wrote a poem about the flowers' resilience, titled “In Flanders Fields”:
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.
The 1915 poem was instantly popular, inspiring the Royal British Legion—a U.K. charity, which supports veterans and their families to this day—to sell millions of handmade poppies. Thus began the "poppy emblem" and the first Poppy Appeal: a fundraising event to raise money for war vets, held each November in honor of Remembrance Day.
Similar to Memorial Day in the States, Remembrance Day, or "Poppy Day," falls on November 11, and honors the lives and memories of fallen troops.
Text was taken from:
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a10392...
And by the way similarly 11th November we honor our fallen troops in Latvia...As they participated in the same war against the same enemy but in the other part of the world.