beautress
Always Faithful
- Sep 28, 2018
- 30,227
- 21,869
The American legion group my grandparents led in the city of Houston had me selling red poppies in a Weingarten's parking lot to people to help veterans of 2 world wars get by. I was 4 years old and people treated <s like royalty for supporting wounded veterans who were down and out.Canadians ain't had a clue in 200 years.
Those red poppies were inspired by a Canadian soldier whose lovely poem people just called "poppies" was found on a piece of recycled paper found in a pocket on his dead body from a battle. I think the real name of the short poem was "Flander's Field" The national Auxilary of the American Legion sponsored the little red crape paper poppy sales all over the USA because of that Canadian officer's fight to the death near Flander's field where poppies grow on soldier's graves marked by crosses, row by row. It is likely the most loving words ever written to honor the fallen soldiers who fought together side ;y side to prot÷ct people fromtyrannical regiems like communism and other Hitlerian killalls.
No. Ive been to Canada several times. I never met finer people than our kind neighbors to the north. They are sensitive kind and caring people.