Thanks for the hugs, Moosie. It was just my blonde roots showing today! ;o]
About those poppies..
If your high school education did not include this poem, you weren’t educated..
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.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
May 3, 1915
