100 years of the poppy – and why it is still such a powerful symbol

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100 years of the poppy – and why it is still such a powerful symbol
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'It must remain an individual’s choice whether he or she wears one or not. But they send the same message now as they did a century ago, that those 888,000 young men – the ‘unreturning army’ - died to uphold the freedom and way of life of all of us'

It is almost impossible to imagine the landscape of the Western Front in the midst of the battles of 1914-18. What had been a patchwork of arable fields and woodlands became a swamp of mud and shattered tree stumps, littered with the bodies of the dead and of horses, and with the wreckage of machines and shrapnel.

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