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 When you go home ~Tell them of us and say ~ For your tomorrow ~ We gave our today. |
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Scarlet poppies (popaver
rhoeas) grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth throughout
Western Europe. The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars
of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields
of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen
soldiers.In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders
were once again ripped open as the First World War raged through
Europe's heart.
The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice made by his comrades and quickly became a lasting memorial to those who died in the First World War and later conflicts. |
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