Veterans Day

[brtmchl]

Laurie, I have never heard of poppies being worn on Veteran's Day. I always thought they were worn on Memorial Day.. I never knew why. I'm going to Google Flanders Fields now. I can't recall ever hearing it before.

A few minutes later:
I looked up poppies and Veteran's Day. Apparently the VA has it wrong as wrong as I did, their website refers to Memorial Day. However, Remembrance Day has been honored with Poppies since the end of WW1 just as you said.

Here is an excerpt from the poem:

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.

Happy Veteran's Day
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