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| current | 23:04, 3 January 2017 | | 1,417 × 1,315 (619 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>An artificial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/corn_poppy" class="extiw" title="w:corn poppy">corn poppy</a>, made of plastic and cardboard by disabled ex-servicemen, worn in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day#Poppies" class="extiw" title="w:Remembrance Day">other Commonwealth countries</a> from late October to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Sunday" class="extiw" title="w:Remembrance Sunday">Remembrance Sunday</a> in support of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_British_Legion" class="extiw" title="w:The Royal British Legion">Royal British Legion's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Appeal" class="extiw" title="w:Poppy Appeal">Poppy Appeal</a> and to remember those servicemen and women who died in war. Wearing poppies to remember the war dead comes from the poem <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders%27_Fields" class="extiw" title="w:In Flanders' Fields">In Flanders' Fields</a></i> by Lieutenant-Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrae" class="extiw" title="w:John McCrae">John McCrae</a> which concludes with the line "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow, In Flanders fields". Although originally worn to commemorate those who fell in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, poppies are also worn for the fallen of every conflict since. </p> |
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