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Poppies are a symbol of WW I because there is a famous cemetery for soldiers who died in the war, called Flanders Field, in which poppies grow. There is also a famous poem about this.
Poppies often grew around the graves.
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Because after the battle at Gallipoli, poppies grew and flowered for the first time in that region.
Also, it was called WWII because from 1914 -1918, the world fought another large war that was referred to as WWI ("the war to end all war").
Poppies are a symbol of WW I because there is a famous cemetery for soldiers who died in the war, called Flanders Field, in which poppies grow. There is also a famous poem about this.
In Flanders field the poppies grow. Between the crosses Row on row. Poppies grow all over the world. Easily grown in gardens, anywhere with a 120+ day growing season.
They are given out in remembrance of the men who died in the World War because poppies grew in the field they were buried. There is a famous poem about Flanders's Fields where the poppies grow.
Poppies often grew around the graves.
Remembrance Day is an Australian holiday that remembers soldiers who died during World War I. People celebrate the day by wearing red poppies because it symbolizes the poppies on the ground during the war that were drenched with soldier's blood.
To remember whose who gave their lives during World War 1. Red poppies began to grow on the shell blasted battlegrounds of France and Belgium, so the poppy was adopted. The money raised by selling poppies help all casualties of the armed forces up to modern times, and long into the future.
They don't
Poppies grew in Flander's Feilds after World War I between the graves.~pce out lolaa
they grew in world war 1 and 2
People wear poppies for Remembrance Day because of a poem written by John McCrae (a Canadian military doctor in World War One) called "In Flanders Fields." Poppies bloom throughout Flanders, where some of the worst fighting of the war occurred--and the poppies grow all through the torn-up fields and in the cemetaries--and so they became a symbol of Remembrance Day.
It is worn because the poppies grew in the battlefields and flanders fields during world war 1
Because after the battle at Gallipoli, poppies grew and flowered for the first time in that region.