Canadian or English DUers, Please excuse my ignorance but what is...

[Meshuga]

that red flower thing that Canadians are wearing on their clothes this week? I get Canadian Hockey games because of my NHL hockey package and I noticed that all Canadian announcers and coaches are wearing the red flower thing on their suit.

I saw some English guy on BBC wearing it too. WHat is it? Sorry for my ignorance! :-)

[Chuckup]

1. It's a poppy

worn to remember...

In Flanders Fields
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.

The name of John McCrae (1872-1918) may seem out of place in the distinguished company of World War I poets, but he is remembered for what is probably the single best-known and popular poem from the war, "In Flanders Fields." He was a Canadian physician and fought on the Western Front in 1914, but was then transferred to the medical corps and assigned to a hospital in France. He died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918. His volume of poetry, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, was published in 1919.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

2. It's a poppy

For Remembrance Day. Its obviously a symbol for something but my memory fails me.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. It's a poppy. Americans used to wear them too.

The Poppy grows in Flanders, where most of the battles of WWI took place, we use it as a symbol to remember the dead. There's a very famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' by a Canadian Doctor from WWI who's name will mean nothing to you, which is lucky because I always forget it (I'm a bad Canadian - John McRae? Should bloody know).

[Swede]

4. It is a poppy to remind us lest we forget.

It's a very important part of Remembrance day,honoring the vets.

[Maple]

5. It's a poppy

for today Nov 11. Rememberance Day

It's from the poem written by a Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields

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.

[ironflange]

6. It's a poppy

Refer to other posts for information.

[Meshuga]

7. Thanks guys! n/t

[SeveneightyWhoa]

8. So let me get this straight--its a poppy?

Wow, six "It's a poppy" posts in a row--must be some sort of world record!

[youngred]

9. and none of them has to do with Opium

which is even more impressive.

Sadly this tradition has fallen by the wayside in the states

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Not a record

I seem to remember a thread that had at least a dozen 'Deleted message' all lined up in a row till it was locked.

[pink_poodle]

11. It's a poppy!!!!! smile. -nm

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[Dogmudgeon]

12. It's a poppy

--bkl

[cosmicdot]

13. this year in the UK

To highlight the 2003 Poppy Appeal, Shell UK Ltd and the British Airways London Eye lit up the South Bank of London. To stress the importance of Remembrance and the Two Minute Silence, the dramatic visual on the Shell Centre contains this year's message : Your Way to Remember.

http://www.poppy.org.uk/

[TrogL]

14. This begs the question

Why don't you know about this?

Don't they do the poppy thing where you are? Why not?

[Meshuga]

15. I'm in Maryland just outside DC...

I don't see anybody doing the poppy thing around here. I've seen it a lot on Canadian television. Pretty much everybody!