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Poppies
Memorial Day observance started in 1868 with the decoration of graves of Union soldiers. For a full account, see “The Origins of Memorial Day,”https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/memday.pdf The poppy was introduced as a remembrance after WW1 and because of a poem composed in memory of fallen soldiers buried hastily after a deadly battle in a Flanders, Belgium, field,…