ext_25055 ([identity profile] luscious-purple.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] maugorn 2010-11-11 08:16 pm (UTC)

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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