Susan, the poppy is a remembrance of Flander’s field, during The Great War.
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing flyScarce 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 lieIn Flanders fields! Take up our quarrel with the foe.To you, from failing hands, we throwThe torch: be yours to hold it highIf ye break faith with us who die,We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 7 years ago
OK, I remember when veterans used to stand on the sidewalk and sell tiny paper poppies for people to wear on Memorial day,
It was an annual fundraiser for the the American Legion, and maybe the VFW.
Volunteers used to make them, and they sold for very little…. something like 10 cents when I got old enough to buy one myself and wear it to school.
I haven’t seen any in years…. so don’t know whether they still do it.
And I don’t know what the Pennys’ poppy represents…
is there a special kind that acts as a pass for some event or…..
OH!
OMG!!
Are they so cheap they’re leaving an old poppy on the mirror,
to point at if they run into someone selling them?
Why am I even asking?
It’s way too much, isn’t it….. expecting them to break out a fresh quarter for a new one.
Dani Rice almost 7 years ago
Susan, the poppy is a remembrance of Flander’s field, during The Great War.
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing flyScarce 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 lieIn Flanders fields! Take up our quarrel with the foe.To you, from failing hands, we throwThe torch: be yours to hold it highIf ye break faith with us who die,We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium
Dani Rice almost 7 years ago
Well, that didn’t come out the way I planned.
forbearly almost 7 years ago
They still have them where I live, on a donation basis. I always get one when I see them.