When I was a kid, the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) used to sell small artificial poppies with a wire stem (for looping through a buttonhole) to benefit ... well, disabled vets.
The poppy motif comes from the famous World War I poem, "In Flanders fields the poppies grow...."
I suspect the British still call this Armistice Day.
When my hometown built a new city hall in the 1930s (thanks to the New Deal) and redesigned the park in front of it, it gave pride of place to a Great War memorial with four statues representing the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nurses. Yes, a statue of a woman!
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2010-11-11 20:16 (UTC)The poppy motif comes from the famous World War I poem, "In Flanders fields the poppies grow...."
I suspect the British still call this Armistice Day.
When my hometown built a new city hall in the 1930s (thanks to the New Deal) and redesigned the park in front of it, it gave pride of place to a Great War memorial with four statues representing the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nurses. Yes, a statue of a woman!