Soon these delicate flowers covered the once brutal battlefields, covering the makeshifts graves of soldiers that were lost on the front line. With the grounds still showing the devastation the war brought upon it, with the dug up earth now mixing with the warm spring, it created the perfect breeding ground for the common red field poppy to blossom. In the spring of 1915 Ypres experienced an unusually warm spring. The last human remains buried in the grounds of the battlefield. The field, once alive with bombs, bodies, and trenches, now lay barren. The shots of guns seized on the battle filed of Ypres in 1915. Bringing the soldiers comfort during those long, cold, and miserable hours. Soldiers recall that through all the decay left from the war, during the gloomy days the Lark would sing high above the fog. The fields and trenches lay full of bodies of friends, brothers, fathers, and enemies. Living among the field mice and scavenging rats. Our soldiers lived in the trenches, waiting days on end before the next crew arrived. That was until, the Great War struck in 1915, and the once peaceful countryside turned brutal with the footsteps of the war.ĭuring the Great War, the landscapes of the battlefields lay bare, stripped of all life and leaving behind the devastation of rotting corpses and churned up earth. Never having the right growing conditions to bloom. The red field poppy lay dormant in the soils of the battlefield in Ypres, Belgium. The story behind the poppy is truly remarkable. A salute to those who gave their lives for our freedom and the reason our country is the way it is today. The poppy not only a symbol of remembrance for our fallen soldiers, but also a symbol of hope.
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