Veteran I Wear Little Poppy As Red As Red Can Be To Show That I Remember Those Who Fought For Me Shirt, hoodie, tank top
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Veteran I Wear Little Poppy As Red As Red Can Be To Show That I Remember Those Who Fought For Me Shirt, hoodie, tank top
Nothing appears to symbolize the true meaning of Memorial Day in our country more than the beautiful and poignant poem In Flanders Fields. This poem was written 106 years ago by Canadian poet and WWI battlefield surgeon Lt. Col. John McCrae, after he had seen a field of colorful red poppies blooming on what shortly before had been a war-torn battlefield in West Flanders, Belgium. The poem In Flanders Fields and the red poppy later became symbols of remembrance of the wartime deaths of our country’s service men and women. Now, on Memorial Day, we honor all veterans.
At Edmonds Grade School, only 22 years after Lt. Col. McCrae had written his poem, our fifth-grade class assignment was to memorize the words to In Flanders Fields. Since that time I have wondered if the poet himself had a premonition of his own death in a battlefield hospital before the ending of the war. As children of the 1930s, we believed as we were told, that WWI would be the war to end all wars—war was for others, not America. Little did we realize what awaited our own generation a few short years later — and the future in store for the generations that would follow us.
In Flanders FieldsBy Lt. Col. John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch, be yours to hold on highIf ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.
On the WWI battlefields in Belgium and France, the little poppy, which was actually a weed, appeared to be one of the few plants to grow on the scarred turf of what had been fields of battle.
Plans for a Memorial Day remembrance this year – Monday, May 31, 2021.
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