Remembrance Day and the Poppy

November 9, 2006 at 3:54 am | In American, Australian, Autumn, British, CULTURES, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS, Canadian, Death, HOLIDAYS, New Zealand | 1 Comment

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  1. [...] The poppy plays a significant symbolic role on Remembrance Day because of the famous poem, In Flanders Field, written by the Canadian military physician John McCrae. The poppy bloomed on some of the worst battlefields in Flanders, and its red color appropriately recalls the bloodshed of trench warfare [...]

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