Well, honey, poppies are a big deal in World War 1 because they became a symbol of remembrance for those who died in the war. The red poppies grew in abundance on the battlefields of Flanders, where many soldiers lost their lives. So, people started wearing poppies as a way to honor and remember the fallen soldiers. Simple as that, darling.
Red poppies are uses to commemorate service men and women who died since World War I.
Soldiers didn't wear poppies in WW2. The tradition of wearing a red poppy button originates from the 1917 poem "In Flander's Fields", by John MacRae. He wrote a poem about the carnage he saw during the Great War, and in the first line, says:"In Flander's Fields, the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row."In honor of MacRae and his poem, the poppy has become a symbol for Remembrance Day in Canada - a day where all soldiers fallen in battle are remembered and mourned.
http://wiki.answers.com/members/keeprockin/Red poppies grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth throughout Western Europe. The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century, transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers.In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as the First World War raged through Europe's heart.The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice made by his comrades and quickly became a lasting memorial to those who died in the First World War and later conflicts.
the reason Veterans use poppies as their symbol is because when they were fighting the first and Second world war, they were surrounded by fields of poppies (red) so much blood and so much death amids all this beauty, so a man named John Mac Rae ( a Canadian) wrote a beautiful poem called " In Flanders Fields" well worth the read you will probably find the words in his Bio on google.
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thats ridiculous... its red...
Poppies have no smell.
Because they used to plant poppies around the crosses of the dead soldiers. As it says in flanders fields: Red poppies grew in the bomb blasted earth on the WW1 battlefields in such profusion that the red poppy was adopted to honour the dead.
Seven. Poppies come in many shades of white, yellow, pink, red, orange, blue, and purple
Red symbolizes the blood of the fallen soldiers, black is the grief over them, and green is the hope.
there are white, purple, and red
Poppies.
The colour/color of poppy species include red, blue, white, orange, pink, purple and yellow. The colour of poppy traditionally used for Remembrance Day is red.
Poppies are used to celebrate November 11th. Poppy's favorite flowers were poppies. The red poppies popped against the green field. The poppies were wild flowers.