Poppies And Poetry

In December of 1915 the poppy was immortalized forever in the poem written by a World War I Canadian First Brigade Artillery Colonel John McCrae, when he wrote a poem In Flanders Fields. The poem spoke of his grieving for the amounts of soldiers that were being killed on the battlefields in Western Belgian and Northern France known as the Flanders Battlefields.

McCrae who spoke of the soldiers who had fallen on the battlefields where the poppies grow and had seen all of the white crosses that marked the graves of the soldiers who had fought in the First World War.

This poem had such an effect on people that eventually several Allied countries began observing the poppy as remembrance of the soldiers, the war and the orphans that were affected by the war. In many countries that had Allied Forces, the poppy still represents a way to honor the soldiers and other people affected by the war.
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Since the first use of the poppy as a remembrance for the soldiers, orphans and others affected by the First World War. After Colonel McCrae wrote In Flanders Field each year veterans of foreign wars manufactures and distributes approximately 14,000,000 artificial poppies worldwide. This is also widely observed with gatherings and services to honor soldiers the past and present, even today and 94 years after colonel wrote and his poem honoring the soldiers whose crosses were among the poppies.