Poppy Flower - In Flanders Fields

The traditional red poppy was a familiar sight on the battlegrounds of the Western Front during the First World War, where it flourished amidst the devastation of trench warfare. It was adopted as a symbol of remembrance in the wake of a poem entitled ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Canadian soldier John McCrae, which concludes with a demand that the dead be remembered by those at home:

“If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.”

At the end of the war, as memorials to the dead sprang up in cities, towns and villages across the country, the poppy became a popular symbol of the public’s commitment to remembering those who had perished in wartime.

Видео Poppy Flower - In Flanders Fields канала Brian Cindy