‘In Flanders Fields’ inspired poppies

Friday, May 27, 2005 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 10:58 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 2, 2008
BY Brianne Sanchez

Memorial Day, which commemorates American soldiers who died in war, was first observed on May 30, 1868. The “National Moment of Remembrance,” signed by President Bill Clinton in 2000, encourages a moment of silence or the playing of “Taps” at 3 p.m.

Wearing red poppies to honor the dead came into fashion following the publication in 1915 of “In Flanders Fields” by Moina Michael:

“We cherish too, the Poppy red, that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to signal to the skies, that blood of heroes never dies.”

Source: www.usmemorialday.org

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