A short explanation of In Flanders Fields and the Significance of Poppies;
The red poppy is significant as a war flower because, in Europe, it flourishes in fields that have been torn by war.
Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day are simply different names. The heart and purpose of the Day's are the same in all three allied countries, U.S, Canada, and the U.K.
In Flanders Fields is a Poem written in May of 1915, by a Canadian named John McCrae. He was a physician and a Lieutenant Colonel. It is the most famous poem of World War I, and has come to represent the sacrifice of soldiers in both World War I and II. The entire poem follows;
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.