Memorial Day - last Monday in May
Since then, poppies as a sign of commemoration, have grown to be an international symbol.
Moina Michael penned the following poem.
We Shall Keep the Faith Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died.
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, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields.
Moina then started the movement to wear red poppies in Memorial Day as a pledge of remembrance. It is due to her efforts that the red poppy has become an international symbol of those fallen in war.
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