880,000+ of them.
Posted on 05/26/2022 1:04:33 PM PDT by Perseverando
Heroes Remembered We honor the brave men and women by sharing tributes to help ensure their memory lives on. See or read some of their stories.
If you'd like to share a tribute, send your story and any images or videos to poppyinmemory@usaa.com.
The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor is a tribute to these fallen heroes and each of the more than 645,000 service members lost in the line of duty since World War I.
Visit the Poppy Wall of Honor in D.C.
For the first time in three years, the USAA Poppy Wall of Honor will return to the National Mall in Washington. The wall, created in partnership with The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, contains more than 645,000 artificial poppies.
The exhibit will be on display near Constitution Gardens, northeast of the Lincoln Memorial, May 27-29.
Visit the Poppy Wall of Honor online
Use the augmented reality lens on Snapchat to see the wall virtually and dedicate a poppy to a fallen service member.
Scan the snapcode to dedicate a poppy
If you can't visit the poppy wall virtually or in person, here are other ways you can choose to remember our fallen service members.
(Excerpt) Read more at usaa.com ...
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.
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Alan Seeger - 1888-1916
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows ’twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
In Britain, they still make it a point to wear a (artificial) poppy on Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday nearest to 11 November. The day, if not the poppy wearing, is commemorated in much of the British Commonwealth as well. We here in the States split our commemoration between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, there in Britain etc. it is all a single day!
880,000+ of them.
Thanks! Beautiful, but what a reminder of sacrifice, suffering and loss,
20,000 of them, in one morning, on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.
Another 30,000 wounded.
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