Friday 29 August 2014

Poppies In Flanders Fields . . .


Please feel free to pin or download and print this high-resolution A4-sized quotation


The Poppy is the August Birth Month flower. But it has also been adopted as the Symbol of Remembrance, honoring those who have sacrificed their lives in war.

So, as we commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War this month, it seems appropriate that the quotation should be from one of the most poignant poems about 'The Great War', the war that was supposed to end all wars.




You can read about the author, a Canadian physician, 
and how he came to write the poem after the Battle of Ypres, 







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