In our annual memory of Armistist day...

Abbynormal

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In Flanders Fields, the poppies grow
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.
 
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With the Canadian Legion backing off sales because of whatever reason I don't know, I bought 5 poppies at a london drug store monday, I buy a few every year and mount them in my vehicles, for the last 25 years I've hung them on fuzzy dice in both vehicles, I always have a thought about why we have them.
 
Thank you for posting this. I originally lived in Canada and Remembrance Day, as it was called there, was always honored. My Grandfather served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and was three times wounded.

I happened to be in New Zealand in November of 2018 and there were Poppies everywhere, many local communities spend weeks making them from yarn to display in their towns.

I also visited the Army Museum in Waiouru, not to be missed. Here is a photo of a vehicle decorated with Poppies.
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A bit of a movie about Kiwis in WW1, probably pure fantasy but I enjoyed it. [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1dZTsjhEJc[/ame]
 
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I found this small poppy adorned cross on the otherwise bare Bellicourt American Monument in France, astride the St. Quentin Canal Tunnel where the Hindenburg Line was breached. A century removed from that horrific fight, the sacrifice there is still remembered and honored by some.

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I will once again post my remembrance of my grandfather that was part of the AEF a Sargent in a Sanitary Train... an Ambulance Corp... their challenges lasted long after 11 11 11 when the shelling and shooting stopped... they dead and dying were still out in the battlefield... the generals (small G is intentional) that had to "prove" something by going until the end when it should have stopped once the agreement was signed... those generals are not heroes of the war... they killed human beings for no reason... a sad ending to a gruesome war... RIP
 
I knew my grandfather had fought in France and did make it home. I recently learned that his cousin didn't and his name is on a wall in Belgium. My mother had commented in the past she knew no one with her surname other than her immediate family.While I was researching that cousin,I found hundreds of young men with that surname on one memorial. Such a waste..
 
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