I should have posted this on Veterans' Day on November 11, but better late than never. When I was a child, paper poppies were sold on Armistice Day (the former label) and were commonplace on everyone's lapel. It is hardly done anymore, but I wish that it still was a tradition, as it seems to be in other countries on their Remembrance Day.
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veteran's still sell their poppies here and we buy them every year. don't notice anyone wearing them though, which is sad...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flower! well capture..
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is beautiful. I agree, would be nice to bring it back.
ReplyDeleteMy father continued to buy paper poppies until he passed, I still have the last one he bought. Many thanks to every veteran.
ReplyDeleteA few times while traveling we have driven by a field of poppies, a delightful sight. I did not know about their association with Armistice Day.
ReplyDeleteLooks like O'Keeffe's painting.
ReplyDeleteyes, it does, but it's Nature's painting!
DeleteLove the Red poppies and I remember buying them from the veterans as a child.
ReplyDeletei wish we still did that in the US, too. i remember my father wearing his poppy.
ReplyDeleteMy post about Remembrance Day was in time for Our World on Tuesday, but late for ABC on Wednesday. But shouldn't we remember those who died in all those wars, every single day?
ReplyDeleteWil, ABCW Team.
The paper poppies don't hold a candle to the beauty of the real thing that you captured but you brought back sweet memories of my grandparents selling poppies for the American Legion.
ReplyDeleteHere in Canada, just about everyone wears a poppy over their heart for a week or two before Remembrance Day (November 11). I didn't realize it wasn't done in the U.S.
ReplyDeletePeople in Canada wear poppies (artificial ones) in the weeks leading up to Veteran's Day. I wonder why that hasn't caught on in the US?
ReplyDeleteI miss the poppies also. The tradition is in need of being revived.
ReplyDeleteThose are pretty, and seem to hold a historical value too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can start a trend and reinstate the tradition!
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday
I suspect that poppies aren't sold so much in the U.S. anymore as the WWII and Koran War generations die off. The Vietnam War was a hard experience for the current generation of aging vets. We may have fewer who are looking for remembrance.
ReplyDeleteI never knew what the poppies had to do with your remembrance, but on tv it was explained to us last night, it is all about a poem and somebody from Belgium read it. We don't remember the First WW because the Netherlands didn't interfere in that one. WW II is remembered in May in our country.
ReplyDeleteI loved those red paper poppies.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful photo of the poppies.
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Poppies are standard on this side of the border at this time of year. That's a good shot of the real thing, Kate!
ReplyDeleteYes, I remember when poppies were common. Biebkriebels is referring to the poem "In Flanders Field." I know you like to research topics that interest you, so go look at http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/flanders.htm.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo of the poppies - when we visited my husband's brother's grave near Caen we saw the real Flanders fields poppies growing around the countryside.
ReplyDeletenice capture.beautiful photo of the poppies
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