Why are poppies worn on Remembrance Day?

Answer 1

Poppies symbolise remembrance.

The story goes that, following one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, in the fields of Flanders in Western Europe,when the ground was completely churned up and muddied, thousands of red poppies sprang up. The seeds had lain dormant in the soil and, after being aerated with the churning of the soil from the soldiers' boots and fertilised with their blood, the poppies grew abundantly, springing forth new life from death.

This is why poppies are worn on Remembrance Day (commemorating Armistice Day) as well as ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, and other solemn occasions when we remember the soldiers who fought or even gave their lives for our freedom.

Another reason poppies came to such prominence in association with World War I is because of how they were immortalised in that most famous poem of WWI, In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae. This poem is spoken at memorial services everywhere on both ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day.

Another famous Poem, "We shall keep the faith" written in 1918, included these words:
"and now the torch and Poppy Red,
we wear in honour of our dead".

Answer 2

The poppy symbolises the main battlefield in World War 1. It was next to a field of poppies. It has been the tradition since 1919, a year after the war ended, and continues as the tradition.

The reason the poppy has become the symbol of remembrance is that during some of the worst fighting in World War 1, in Flanders in Belgium (particularly the 3 battles of Ypres where there were hundreds of thousands of casualties) where the earth had been blasted and churned into mud, poppies were the first plants to grow back after the fighting and formed a carpet of red blooms.

This was immortalised in the poem "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae a Canadian surgeon who treated injured soldiers during the second battle of Ypres:

"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..."

you make poppies for remembrance day because they are a symbol for remembrance day.They were first used to commemorate US soldiers who died in The First World War

because after ww2 there grew poppys all over the battle field and they are the only plant to survive the war.

Because of John McRae.......a Canadian Solder who wrote "In Flanders Field"

Answer 3

Poppies were the only plants that was growing then. They brought life, hope, colour and reassurance to the people still fighting.

Answer 4

To help raise money for The Royal British Legion

Answer 5

We wear this because we remember the people who fought for Britain in World war I and World War II.

Answer 6

Because they grow on Flounders Field.

Answer 7

because the poppy repsents the blood