Poppy Run
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Poppy Run
POPPY RUNWhen I was a child my dad would take me with him on Veterans Day and we would go make a donation and receive our Poppy to hang on the truck mirror. I have carried on this tradition still.
Time to go saddle up the old Iron Horse and go make a generous donation to get my Poppy. I will once again tie it onto the mirror stem where it will remain until it decides to fly away.
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Cool, I didn't know the Poppy was a symbol anywhere in the US.
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
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Cool, I didn't know the Poppy was a symbol anywhere in the US.
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
It is California's state flower
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Had an excellent Remembrence Day service in our village today. Difficult to keep dry eyes when the bugler plays The Last Post. Makes me proud to be part of this society.
Brits tend to be somewhat more subdued in showing their appreciation to those that serve, but doesn't mean they care any less
Brits tend to be somewhat more subdued in showing their appreciation to those that serve, but doesn't mean they care any less
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Cool, I didn't know the Poppy was a symbol anywhere in the US.
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
It is used through out the British Commonwealth nations to remember the War Dead on what is known as "Rememberance Day", November 11th the Anniversary of the WWi Armistice.
My Dad is gone now, but on this day I reach out to friends who served.
Mike
The poppy, an international symbol for those who died in war, also had international origins. A writer first made connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended. Prior to the First World War few poppies grew in Flanders. During the tremendous bombardments of that war the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing ‘popaver rhoeas’ to thrive. When the war ended the lime was quickly adsorbed, and the poppy began to disappear again. Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, the Canadian doctor who wrote the poem “IN FLANDERS FIELD,” made the same connection 100 years later, during the First World War, and the scarlet poppy quickly became the symbol for soldiers who died in battle. Three years later an American, Moina Michael, was working in a New York City YMCA canteen when she started wearing a poppy in memory of the millions who died in the battlefield. During a 1920 visit to the United States a French woman, Madame Guerin, learned of the custom. On her return to France she decided to use handmade poppies to raise money for the destitute children in war- torn areas of the country.
I went to the remembrance gathering today and found it truly humbling. Indeed, the bugle playing the last post makes me struggle to keep my eyes dry.
May we never forget those that gave their present to save our tomorrow.
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Well I could not find any this morning at the intersections. Went by the local VFW and no one there. Talked to my brother in-law in GA and they will be doing their POPPY on tomorrow. So I'll be out again in the morning. If I don't get them tomorrow he will bring me some his VFW in GA. next week when he comes in.
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