The date we started wearing poppies for Remembrance Day

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Undoubtedly, they are an eye-catching symbol, but why are they worn?

Poppies growing in Flanders Fields The Royal British Legion began using the symbol in 1921, following the lead of two women: Moina Michael and Anna Guérin.

Particularly poignant for McCrae were Flanders fields, a common name for the battlefields in Ypres, Belgium – and other parts spread between the Belgian regions East and West Flanders.In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row / That mark our placeLike Moina, French-born American woman Anna was doing similar work with poppies in several US states.

 

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