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Old 11-09-2011, 09:36 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Sainters7 View Post
It's supposed to be a poppy, for Remembrance Day to remember the troops. Its from a poem that a Canadian soldier wrote during WWI called "In Flanders Fields" after witnessing the death of his friend, as the battlefield they were on (in Flanders) was covered with poppies.

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
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

EDIT: Beaten to it. Won't erase it though, that'd be sacrilicious.
Not to be an ass in this thread, but 'sacrelicious' looks like a cross between sacrilege and delicious. In this case you just say that would be sacrilege.
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