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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11 month
Loved ones
Poppy in the common name for several related groups of flowers since the end of the world war i memorial day has also
been poppy day.Vountlers sell small red artificial poppys in ordor to help disabled vetrans 9in recent years the custon
is grown in most familys to decrated the graves for loved ones on memorial day.
Row by row the poppys blow
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark
our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the
Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take
up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break
faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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InCanadians' first major battle was later seen as one of the most crucial battles in history. At Ypres, April
22, 1915, the Germans used poison gas for the first time in war. As 145 tonnes of chlorine gas drifted over the trenches,
the Canadian troops held and stopped the German advance. The casualties here and at the later battle near St. Julien were
enormous. In 48 hours, one of every three Canadians was killed. Some of those who survived left records of the aftermath of
these fearful days the First World War,
For almost six years, Canadians fought valiantly on battlefronts around the world. More than one million
men and women enlisted in the army, the navy and the airforce. They were prepared to face any ordeal for the sake of freedom.
When the war was over, more than 45,000 had given their lives. On the home front as well, Canadians were active as munitions
workers, as civil defence workers, as members of voluntary service organizations and as ordinary citizens doing their bit
for the war effort.
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