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Today marks the 109th anniversary of the start of the bloodiest battle in British history, the Battle of the Somme which began on Saturday 1st July, 1916.

This Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, members of the Capt. Lester S. Wass American Legion Post No. 3 will be offering red poppies in front of a number ...

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In the 20th century, the blood red blooms came to symbolise blood spilled on the fields of Flanders in the First World War. A poppy field at sunset (Image: Julie Smart) Like those who marched off ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead.

The poppy is more commonly tied to veteran remembrances in Europe, partly because of the World War I poem, " In Flanders Fields." However, it also has North American roots, and you might see ...

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, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead.

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician.

And, more marketably: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow…”. The poem was published in Punch in 1915; a poppy fundraising campaign followed. By the 1920s, millions of poppies were being sold.