[Slicksadick]

That is strange. Those look like poppies from Flanders field.

[toadthesecond]

Indeed so - The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day