Rememberance Day - in Canada, we wear a poppy.

Roger

Street Tracker
November 11, this Rememberance Day is a bit more special this year. Canada is honoring two more recently fallen. I have already bought my poppy. They are on sale everywhere here now. They might be just a facsimile that we pin to our jacket or shirt, but they remind us of all of those individuals, that gave their lives in all the past wars.

by John McCrae, May 1915

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.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
 

Flaco

750cc
Poppy I will buy in rememberance…
It has been used since 1921…

My uncle Stan served in both WW1 and WW2...
 

B06Tang

Cafe Racer
I was given a poppy pin from a good friend of mine when I was stationed in the UK. To this day, that pin is on my coat. I have done a flag detail at Madingley Cemetery where I escorted a British WWII veteran who served with the American that was on the wall who he volunteered to lay the wreath to. I wheeled his chair up to the wall to do that but right before the anthem was played he pulled on my arm and asked me to help him stand for both anthems as he wasn't about to stay seated for that. He gave me a cloth poppy that sits on my desk now.

Here's to all the Willie McBrides...thank you with much respect and humility.
 
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