“McCrae’s well-known poem “In Flanders Fields” memorializes the April 1915 battle in Belgium’s Ypres salient. For 17 days, McCrae tended those injured in the battle. The poem, written after the death of a close friend, was first published in Punch magazine and led to the adoption of the poppy as the Flower of Remembrance for the British and Commonwealth war dead.” Poetry Foundation.
This was the first poem I learned to recite by heart. Watching the BBC and Sky News the wearing of the red plastic poppy begins a couple of weeks before Armistice Day on November 11th. The Brits would lose twice as many soldiers in WW 1 than WW 2. “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.“
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
Drain the Cesspool 