Canadian officer and surgeon John McCrae popularized the poppy emblem through "In Flanders Fields", which leads me to visiting some war cemeteries in Western Europe, how it hits home the great numbers, young age of men who laid down their lives.
Growing up attending Remembrance day services on closest Sunday throughout our years growing up, it disappoints one realizing many have no clue as to the meaning of the day, time or hour.
Throughout history senseless wars have been fought, people volunteering to face horrors of war, hoping for a better future for all, totally disgusting when modern life no longer respect history.
I am in possession of my fathers diaries through WWII how much more insight would one need to know why they stood after learning about WWI when their fathers fought a gruesome war.
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I've been to those Flanders Fields and other battlefields around the world, walked them, picked up shrapnel left in them and felt the mood of places that have seen the best and worst of human behaviours.
Sobering knowing how destructive humans are one toward another.
Yep, I agree.