I know. It's a poppy. I actually right-clicked and viewed the name of the flower prior to writing this, but I wasn't going to let that fact get in the way of a terrible pun.
What I do NOT know is why the poppy is a Thing on Veteran's Day. Flander's Fields?
Like I said, it's a Canadian thing. 10% of the Canadians who served in any capacity in WWI didn't come back. Another 20% were wounded in action. That's over sixty thousand dead, out of a country the size of Canada. Flanders is a symbol that I can't think of an American equivalent to - the wreck of the Arizona, at Pearl Harbor, might come closest.
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Date: 2004-11-11 10:50 am (UTC)What I do NOT know is why the poppy is a Thing on Veteran's Day. Flander's Fields?
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Date: 2004-11-11 10:53 am (UTC)http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae (http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae)
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