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Lest we forget
PETER FROST explains the history of that bright, evocative flower, the poppy
YESTERDAY was the 11th day of the 11th month. This is Armistice Day, the day we remember the end of the first world war just over a century ago.
Over that century the simple poppy came to mean all kinds of things to all kinds of people — and not always for the best.
Poppies became a big part of the events commemorating the end of “the war to end all wars” — but sadly that war didn’t end wars at all.
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