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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 90918" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Poppies, the tradition......</p><p> </p><p> Every year around this time we see the veterans in front of the grocery stores with the red paper poppies. They are raising money for disabled and needy military veterans. It's a tradition that dates back more than 80 years. It was inspired by a poem written about wars and those who die in them. </p><p> The poem was written in 1915 by a Canadian army medical officer named John McRae, after the WWI battle of Apres in Belgium. As he wrote the poem he was looking over a military cemetery that was covered with wildflowers blowing in the wind. The poem is called "In Flanders Fields".</p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">[SIZE=+1]<span style="color: #000000">I</span><span style="color: #3333ff">N FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow</span>[/SIZE]</span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]Between the crosses row on row,[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]That mark our place; and in the sky[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]The larks, still bravely singing, fly[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]Scarce heard amid the guns below.[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]We are the Dead. Short days ago[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]Loved and were loved, and now we lie[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]Take up our quarrel with the foe:[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]To you from failing hands we throw[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]The torch; be yours to hold it high.[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]If ye break faith with us who die[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]We shall not sleep, though poppies grow[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #3333ff">[SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE]</span></span></strong> </p><p></p><p>Thanks to Gordon Dillow, O.C. Register columnist for the reminder of what the poppies mean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 90918, member: 1246"] Poppies, the tradition...... Every year around this time we see the veterans in front of the grocery stores with the red paper poppies. They are raising money for disabled and needy military veterans. It's a tradition that dates back more than 80 years. It was inspired by a poem written about wars and those who die in them. The poem was written in 1915 by a Canadian army medical officer named John McRae, after the WWI battle of Apres in Belgium. As he wrote the poem he was looking over a military cemetery that was covered with wildflowers blowing in the wind. The poem is called "In Flanders Fields". [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=+1][COLOR=#000000]I[/COLOR][COLOR=#3333ff]N FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]Between the crosses row on row,[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]That mark our place; and in the sky[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]The larks, still bravely singing, fly[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]Scarce heard amid the guns below.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B][COLOR=#3333ff][/COLOR] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]We are the Dead. Short days ago[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]Loved and were loved, and now we lie[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B][COLOR=#3333ff][/COLOR] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]Take up our quarrel with the foe:[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]To you from failing hands we throw[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]The torch; be yours to hold it high.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]If ye break faith with us who die[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]We shall not sleep, though poppies grow[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Arial Narrow][COLOR=#3333ff][SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] Thanks to Gordon Dillow, O.C. Register columnist for the reminder of what the poppies mean. [/QUOTE]
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