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Show MAY 25 NAMED AS POPPYDAY HERE "Wearing a poppy is a pledge that we will not break faith with those who have died defending America", said Mrs. J. Dewey Knudsen, president of the Bingham Bing-ham unit of the American Legion auxiliary, as the unit prepared for the annual observance of Poppy Pop-py day next Monday. "The poppy comes to us from the fields of France where Americans Amer-icans first gave their lives in battle bat-tle against the dictator powers", continued Mrs. Knudsen "We wear this little red flower in honor of the men who fell at Belleau Woods, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and other battle of the first World War. We wear it also in honor of the brave boys of Pearl Harbor, Wake, the Philippines, the East Indies and all those who have sacrificed life elsewhere in the renewal of the conflict. "The poppy, as you know, was inspired by the poem, 'In Flanders' Flan-ders' Fields' with its immortal lines: 'In Flanders' fields the poppies pop-pies blow, Between the crosses, .dw on row.' The poppies were the only touch of beauty that survived amid the desolation of the battle front in France. They formed the only floral tribute on the graves of the dead and became be-came for the men fighting there a symbol of heroic sacrifice. |