Why use red poppies for remembrance day?

Red Poppies symbolize the vast amounts of blood shed by combatants from both sides . The Poppy was also used because of their tendency to grow upon the cemeteries near Flanders and the popularity of the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae : 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.

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