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On 5/29/2024 9:06 AM, Loran wrote:
micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 27 May 2024 15:00:48 -0700, Sam
<[email protected]d> wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2024 19:25:44 -0000 (UTC), Jon Brady <[email protected]>
wrote:
To the 1% currently active, and those 6% veterans who have made great
sacrifices to defend the United States of America, thank you for doing >>>> what the remaining 93% would not.
Jon Brady, FMF
It is never called Happy Funeral day or Happy Memorial Day. It is on
this
Memorial Day we honor those who died in the service of our country.
Sunday, before this thread appeared, I was at a supermarket that was
selling cakes with red, white, and blue icing embossed Happy Memorial
Day. I noticed and thought it was the wrong thing to say, but there
was no cake representative present to explain it to.
I have always wondered why they don't ice in a nice "buddy poppy" for
the fields of Flanders - that would be respectful and thought-provoking, given the national memory muscle for history is atrophied to death at
this point.
Nice lesson!
https://wobm.com/do-you-know-the-story-behind-the-buddy-poppy/
You have seen Veterans out selling the "Buddy Poppies", but do you know
the story behind them? We especially see the Poppies for sale over the
Memorial Day Weekend as we honor those who have given the ultimate
sacrifice.
It began towards the end of World War I. The bloodshed on the fields of
France were represented by the "red" poppy which was seen growing there.
The poem "In Flander's Fields" written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (Belgium - 1915) described the landscape of the time:
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields"
The poppy was then adopted as a memorial flower for those veterans who
have died and it has become an ongoing fundraiser for the VFW (Veterans
of Foreign War).
The poppy program actually got its start on the other side of the
Atlantic Ocean. Shortly after World War I, Madame E. Guerin, founder of
the American and French Children's League, became concerned that the
free world was forgetting too soon those who died in battle. She began
using the poppy as a memorial from the poem "In Flander's Fields" and eventually brought the idea to America.
In May 1922, the VFW conducted the first nationwide distribution of
poppies in the United States. This Memorial Day Weekend, if you see a
Veteran selling his "Buddy Poppies" be sure to purchase one and help
area Veterans.
Now you know the history of the Buddy Poppy and you can help "HONOR THE
DEAD BY HELPING THE LIVING".
Read More: Do You Know The Story Behind The Buddy Poppy? |
https://wobm.com/do-you-know-the-story-behind-the-buddy-poppy/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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