Tien jaar geleden brachten we deze videoclip over WO1 uit. Helaas nog steeds actueel. Vandaag is het #poppyday, oftewel #remembranceday, de jaarlijkse dag waarop herdacht werd dat in 1918 de wapenstilstand getekend werd, nadat er in deze oorlog 10 miljoen soldaten plus 7 miljoen burgers stierven. De beelden in de videoclip zijn echte, found footage beelden uit #Vlaanderen tussen 1916 en 1918:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwpPPLUNGOM&si=Nnk95QkoxeUa1x58

Service by the few
Giving all for the many
Served with a salute

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Ohio #Akron #USA #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay #PoppyDay #Remember #Honor #Veterans #Vets

November 11, 2024

#lestweforget the horrors of #war

_The Evening Post_, 29 Apr 1924:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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No poppies were sold in #Auckland on “Poppy Day” owing to the disagreement between the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association and the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, but instead of the artificial blooms customarily sold on Poppy Day, members of the local organisation and their supporters disposed of badges bearing the emblem of the poppy. The headquarters of the association recently decided to alter the method of allocating the receipts from the sale of flowers, and suggested that the branches should agree to a substantial portion of the proceeds being devoted to the needs of the association. The Auckland association, however, declined to fall in with this suggestion…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240429.2.45
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #PoppyDay #RSA

_The Evening Post_, 15 Mar 1924:
              POPPY DAY, 1924
     PROPOSED ALLOCATION
                OF FUNDS
  STATEMENT BY N.Z.R.S.A
  The following statement, issued by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, makes clear the intentions of the association in regard to the allocation of 1924 Poppy Day funds, arid again sets out in general outline the objects of Poppy Day, a day of remembrance of Flanders fields.
  Poppy Day, the day which reminds us of the battlefields and crosses in Flanders and the other theatres of the Great War, falls usually, in New Zealand, on Anzac Day, or the day preceding. This year, Easter occurs near this date, and the different local returned soldiers’ associations throughout New Zealand will make their own arrangements for the sale of the poppies on such day nearest Anzac Day as is found most suitable for them.
  The poppies come direct from the French Children’s League, and the proceeds of the sale of these poppies from the league to the N.Z.R.S.A. are devoted to the succour of the French war orphans and the children of the devastated regions in France.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240315.2.193
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #RSA #PoppyDay #AnzacDay #Remembrance #WWI #WorldWar1 #Charities

Lest We Forget. Which of course we won't with wars still raging on as bloodthirsty and indiscriminate as ever.
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#ArmisticeDay #lestweforget #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poppy #poppyday #remembrancesunday #royalbritishlegion #war #vswar #russia #ukraine #palestine #isreal

https://npryan.com/2023/11/12/n-p-ryan-vs-war/

REMEMBRANCE DAY TODAY

(also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed since the end of the First World War in 1919 to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.

The day is also marked by war remembrances in several other non-Commonwealth countries.

In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
#AureFreePress #poppyday #News #USA

“Well might the dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.” #RemembranceDay #PoppyDay #WhiteFeathers #WWI #Sassoon #xp

https://allpoetry.com/On-Passing-The-New-Menin-Gate