Poppies represent blood spilled
in a notorious World War I battle, an image used in the famous 1915 poem
"In Flanders Fields," by a Canadian soldier, Lt. Col. John McCrae.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row
Inspired by the work, New Yorker Moina Michael began distributing red poppies as a memorial flower in 1918, together with a poem she wrote in response to McCrae's:
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies!
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row
Inspired by the work, New Yorker Moina Michael began distributing red poppies as a memorial flower in 1918, together with a poem she wrote in response to McCrae's:
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies!
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