Remembrance Day

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you should be able to wear a fresh live poppy for two days before they start wilting, if you are talking about the plastic poppy for the holiday you can wear it on the celibration day, put it on the grail of your car, put it on hats, coats, wreaths ......

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 sacrifice made by his comrades and quickly became a lasting memorial to all those who died in World War One as well as subsequent wars .

In Flanders Field

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 .

Poppies were grown in Flanders Field.

You have a moment of silence to remember the people that gave up their life to fight in the war.

The Red Poppy was created in 1927.

I wear a black poppy every Remembrance Day. I buy it from the British Legion and hand colour it. I wear it to oppose the notion of the 'Glorious Dead' and the idea of 'sacrifice', to remember all victims of war, and to protest against it as an insane obscenity -an extension of politics by other means, to remember the 'Inglorious Dead'. My father fought in the last world war, and he detested Remembrance Day and I think he thought it was grotesque. I suffered his nightmares, mood swings, anger and alcoholism as a child, as he saw and did terrible things in the name of the nation.

The day I enlisted into our Country's Army.

Yes; many people died where the poppies normally bloom.

It was started in 1919 - by King George V... to commemorate the end of World War 1.

The most famous poppy field was at Flanders (the western part of Belgium), and it where the tradition of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance began. Following World War I and the battles along the Western Front, poppies grew in profusion there. The fighting churned up the soil and, since poppy seeds can lie dormant for years, the action was enough to germinate the thousands and thousands of poppies which then bloomed after the war casualties had all been laid to rest. As a result, the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" was penned by the Canadian army physician John McCrae, and ever since has often been read at Remembrance Day services (and ANZAC services in Australia and NZ).

they grew in world war 1 and 2

poppies can represent

on ANZAC Day they are worn as a mark of respect to those who died during war. Poppies bloomed over the graves of soldiers in Flanders fields.

they are a symbol of remembrance.

You wear the poppy on the left side ONLY

As the white poppy symbolizes peace. Their intention was to remember casualties of all wars, with the added meaning of a hope for the end of all wars; the red poppy, they felt, signified only the British military dead. The (PPU) took part in its distribution from 1934, and white poppy wreaths were laid from 1937 as a pledge to peace that war must not happen again.

i don't know what about u

After the Final war. After everyone who had died, poppy's grew (some say to represent the blood of the soldiers)

they celebrate with candles and fireworks. It's a whole day of light. Im a traditional person and I know this very strongly. Bye. I have to go get ready for 2 more celebrations coming up. LOL.

Some types of poppies are California, Corn, Iceland, Mexican, Opium, Oriental, Oil, Persian, Field, Psuedo-Oriental, Long-head, Rough, and Pale.

In all of Canada it is, except for Quebec.

which is where i live :(

Rememberance Day is 11th November.

There's also services on the Sunday before the 11th where wreaths get laid at war memorials up and down the country.

November 11th is Armistice Day, which marks the end of the 1st World War. The nearest Sunday to November 11th is Remembrance Sunday. Both days are used to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the two world wars and other more recent conflicts. People wear poppies as a mark of remembrance, and these are sold in the UK by the British Legion to raise money to help injured soldiers and their families.