My Account In Mc Crae’s poem, the poppies become the symbol of Commonwealth fallen soldiers, video shot in Ploegsteert Wood recreated trench warfare system
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Red flowers (popaver rhoea) are still growing in Flanders, like they were on the western front 1914-1918 battlefields. On some places, trenches were reconstructed with fences and barbed wire. They became the symbol of war remembrance throughout the Commonwealth after the Second Battle of Ypres. A canadian doctor named John McCrae noticed red poppies growing near one of Flanders Fields mass cemeteries. He wrote a poem, “In Flanders Fields,” in 1915, which was eventually published in Britain. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow,” wrote McCrae, “Between the crosses, row on row.” It was adopted by The Royal British Legion as the symbol for their Poppy Appeal, in aid of those serving in the British Armed Force.
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