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I pinned a poppy to myself the other day. Always complex, mixed feelings but I think about guys heading off to WWI. I can't be mad at them. What did they know?

Does the poppy glorify soldierhood or make the statement that people need to stop killing each other that way. :dunno:

Damn, over a hundred years since WWI began.
 
In their unique beauty, flowers have accompanied us during times of happiness and great sorrow. One flower has remained a constant symbol of death, life and remembrance since World War I. The red poppy was immortalized in the famous poem, "In Flanders Fields," written by a Canadian officer, Col. John McCrae, a physician, who was inspired by the flower.

McCrae was intrigued with the poppy, which can lay dormant in the soil for years, and its ability to reappear in great numbers.

He immediately associated it and his deep respect for his veteran patients and deceased comrades and he wrote the poem for them. Eventually, the red poppy was used as a symbol of remembrance by the British and Canadian troops, and as a fundraiser to help their disabled veterans