The Veteran and the Poppy
Around Veterans Day, you will see the VFW (veterans of foreign wars) handing out Poppies to everyone - no compensation required. WHY?
Thankfully, most people have no real references to war other than books or film. As much as governments want to think they can, war will never be regulated.
War is mankind's capability for dispensing evil at his very worst. Envisioning (sights, sounds, smell) the carnage of a battlefield is something you do not want branded into your memory.
All laws, rules and any sense of civility are discarded because failure in a war is not accepted until all avenues for success are exhausted.
In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres Belgium, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was inspired by the sight of poppies growing in battle-scarred fields to write a now famous poem called 'In Flanders Fields'. After the First World War, the poppy was adopted as a symbol of remembrance.
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Thankfully, most people have no real references to war other than books or film. As much as governments want to think they can, war will never be regulated.
War is mankind's capability for dispensing evil at his very worst. Envisioning (sights, sounds, smell) the carnage of a battlefield is something you do not want branded into your memory.
All laws, rules and any sense of civility are discarded because failure in a war is not accepted until all avenues for success are exhausted.
In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres Belgium, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was inspired by the sight of poppies growing in battle-scarred fields to write a now famous poem called 'In Flanders Fields'. After the First World War, the poppy was adopted as a symbol of remembrance.
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Stacy
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Dec 14, 2017 09:15PM
That is so interesting-- I never knew there was a connection!
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