Re:Finished project

• Re:Finished project - 2007-10-24 14:12:28-04
  A History Lesson, I have Googled Flanders Poppy, because I remembered something about it. The Flanders poppy has been a part of Armistice or Remebrance Day ritual since the early 1920's. During the First World War, the red poppies were seen to be among the first living plants that sprouted from the devestation of the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium. Soldiers folklore had it that the poppies were vivid red from having nurtured in ground drenched with the blood of their comrades.
  The poppy soon became widely accepted throughout the allied nations as the flower of rememberance to be worn on Armistice Day.
  They sell poppies in Australia also, and have done so since 1921. The funds raised are used on welfare work.
  In Flanders Fields
  In Flanders fields the poppies blow
  Between the crosses, row on row,
  That mark our place: and in the sky
  The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below.
  
  We are the Dead. Short days ago
  We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie
  In Flanders fields.
  
  Take up our quarrel with the foe:
  To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch; be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
  We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
  In Flanders fields.
  
  John McCrae