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<blockquote data-quote="mistyshade" data-source="post: 4294" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Remembrance Day</p><p></p><p>Hello Lars,</p><p>Thanks for your post.</p><p>The symbol is the poppy flower.</p><p>By 1915, the trenches stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border, crossing the Somme basin and a considerable amount of farmland.</p><p>If you can imagine the shellfire, mortars, grenades that exploded and broke up the ground to quite a depth. This threw up poppy seeds that had lain dormant for, what could be, centuries. They germinated and flowered, creating, each summer, this amazing beauty amongst all the carnage.</p><p>In 1919 the British Legion was created for veterans and by 1921 they had taken the Poppy as the official emblem.</p><p>These poppies are made by disabled ex-servicemen and women and sold every year to collect donations to help ex-servicemen and their families.</p><p></p><p>Follow the link below, click on 'uncover the story' link in the picture to get more information.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/</a></p><p></p><p>Phil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mistyshade, post: 4294, member: 126"] Remembrance Day Hello Lars, Thanks for your post. The symbol is the poppy flower. By 1915, the trenches stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border, crossing the Somme basin and a considerable amount of farmland. If you can imagine the shellfire, mortars, grenades that exploded and broke up the ground to quite a depth. This threw up poppy seeds that had lain dormant for, what could be, centuries. They germinated and flowered, creating, each summer, this amazing beauty amongst all the carnage. In 1919 the British Legion was created for veterans and by 1921 they had taken the Poppy as the official emblem. These poppies are made by disabled ex-servicemen and women and sold every year to collect donations to help ex-servicemen and their families. Follow the link below, click on 'uncover the story' link in the picture to get more information. [url]http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/[/url] Phil. [/QUOTE]
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