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Ever wonder why veterans use poppy flowers for #Military Remembrances? #WW1 had a great human toll of approximately 8.5 million soldiers. The Germans unleashed lethal chlorine gas for the first time during the Second Battle of Ypres. A Canadian Soldier, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, brigade surgeon tended to the wounded in that battle and was overwhelmed with the carnage of the fallen from the unleashing of the chlorine gas by the Germans. The fallen soldiers were buried in a sea of red poppy flowers in Flanders Field. He wrote the poem, In Flanders Fields, in remembrance.
