Why do you wear poppies on rememberence day?
Flanders (Western Belgium) saw most of the bloodiest fighting in WWI, every year the poppy flowers all over there. John McCrae was so moved by this he wrote a poem called “in Flanders fields” and the poppy became a symbol for soldiers who died in battle. In reply, in 1918 Moira Michael (an American) wrote a poem herself and promised to wear a poppy in honour of our dead soldiers, and so began the tradition.
