In response to Major John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, Moina Bell Michael wrote the f
In response to Major John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, Moina Bell Michael wrote the following excerpt: That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders’ Fields. And now the torch and poppy red Wear in honour of our dead Fear not that ye have died for naught We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders’ Fields. We didn’t learn the lesson, but Moina began the custom of wearing a red poppy to remember ‘the blood of heroes’. Starting as an American tradition, it soon became adopted in Great Britain. Anyone in the limelight not wearing a poppy pin has caused a scandal (even recently in the news). Read more about the history and dos and don'ts of poppy etiquette HERE. -- source link
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