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Episode: AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES 11.13.23: Veterans Day 2023
Description: YOU MAY FIND this hard to believe, but I can remember when grizzled men who had survived the horrors of the trenches in 1917 and 1918, or their surviving wives, were still to be found standing on street corners or in shopping center entrance areas every November 11, handing out red poppies for Veterans Day, a practice that has almost disappeared in this country. The poppy reference is to the famous World War 1-era poem by John McCrae, In Flanders Fields — “In Flanders fields, the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row” etc. And a sad and very moving poem it is.
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