To them it is Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I hostilities at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month in 1918. The red poppy became synonymous with the fallen troops during the First World War — and has remained a symbol of their sacrifice ever since.

Poppy flower is important symbol to honor military in May Poppies worn on National Poppy Day and Memorial Day The next day, in the back of an ambulance overlooking the battlefield, McCrae wrote what would arguably become Canada's most well-known literary work.

It was at the second battle of Ypres, Belgium in April to May 1915 where McCrae saw the devastation firsthand. The Victorians gave the flower a variety of meanings based on the color, including consolation for loss, deep sleep, and extravagance. Nearly every grave was decorated, as if it were a symbol from above. The Poppy is one of the most widely used symbolic flower around the world. The red poppy became synonymous with the fallen troops during the First World War — and has remained a symbol of their sacrifice ever since. But the poppies adopted this meaning because of the war poem " In Flanders Field " written by the Canadian Physician, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.


McCrae would be promoted to the consulting physician of the First British Army just four days before succumbing to pneumonia on Jan. 28, 1918. He chose to perform the burial service himself.
The poem and red poppies used to sell Canadian victory bonds.

They flourished in the soil churned up by the fighting and shelling. The red poppy flower is a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died in WWI. Red poppies are a hardy flower. After only the first seventeen days, half of McCrae's brigade had died in battle. The flower provided Canadian doctor

Where the land had been destroyed by mortar fire, chlorine gas, and countless other environmental concerns, the poppies grew around the graves — not even the high sodium or increased levels of lime could deter the red blooms. The remembrance poppy is an artificial flower sold by veteran's associations to raise money for servicemen and servicewomen.

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