purple poppy meme

No one knew that the churned up soil of World War I battlefields in France and Belgium would create the perfect conditions for a bumper crop of wild red poppies: breathtaking, horrifying, unforgettable. The red poppy was immortalized "Lest we forget" Then we forgot... "Red poppies were for Flanders Fields, White poppies say that war must cease, Now purple poppies blossom forth For Pangaiamic Peace..."

Friday, April 14, 2006

Oldest Veteran lays red poppy wreath


Remembrance Day, November 2005
Oldest veteran remembers fallen.

Mr Allingham was in France to lay a wreath on Armistice DayBritain's oldest war veteran was taking part in the march past the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Sunday.

Henry Allingham, 109, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was a WWI aircraft engineer and is the last survivor from the Royal Air Force's creation in 1918.

He was in France for Armistice Day on Friday where he laid wreaths at memorials in St Omer, near Calais, in honour of his fallen comrades. Mr Allingham served in the British airbase there during 1917.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4431482.stm

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