OOPS!  Just as I snapped this poppy photo, the wind blew it partly out of view.  The shape, color, and details of the bloom are still visible.  A bud hangs in front of it.  This is the Memorial Day Poppy which has helped remember and honor fallen troops since WWI.  It was chosen for this distinction because there were fields and fields of them growing when the troops got to Flanders.  Flanders is in the region of Belgium, France, and The Netherlands, and the fields were all red from the poppies.  Soon, the poppies disappeared, due to the marching, fighting, military equipment trampling them.  Soldiers were buried there all through the war.  When WWI ended, suddenly the poppies came back larger than ever, and waved gently in the breezes mixed with the white crosses of fallen soldiers.  It appeared a miracle to the people that this could happen.  From then on, the Flanders or Corn Poppy, Papaver rhoeas , became the international token of memory of fallen troops.

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