Happy Memorial Day!!! Fun Facts & USA Cosplay! (Patreon)

Happy Memorial Day weekend, my people!

Fun Fact: Memorial Day, a day of remembrance, was originally called Decoration Day until it was changed in the 1800's. It's represented by the red poppy, a resilient flower able to lie dormant for many years, only to bloom again in great numbers. The poppy, in Europe and the United States, quickly became a symbol of the fallen military after the publication of In Flander’s Field.

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Do this for those who cannot. -a

In Flander’s FieldBy Lt. Col. John McCrae, 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly,Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.,Loved, and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields

Take up our quarrel with the foeTo you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it highIf ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fieldsLt. Col. John McCrae is buried in Wimereux, France after succumbing to pneumonia in 1918.

“We Shall Keep the Faith”By Moina Michael

Oh! You who sleep in Flanders fields,Sleep sweet – to rise anew!We caught the torch you threwAnd holding high, we keep the FaithWith All who died

We cherish, too, the poppy redThat grows on fields where valor led;It seems to signal to the skiesThat blood of heroes never dies,But lends a lustre to the redOf the flower that blooms above the deadIn Flanders field

And now the Torch and Poppy RedWe wear in honor of our deadFear not that ye have died for naught;We’ll teach the lesson that you wroughtIn Flanders field