http://worldculturenet.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/ Share Your Culture. Discover Your World. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://worldculturenet.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/#comment-104 Veteran’s Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, Poppy Day « WorldCultureNet Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:58:35 +0000 http://worldculturenet.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/#comment-104 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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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