Poppies in the battlefield

Due to being the only flowers growing in some battlefields during World War I, along with the inspiration for John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" and the only company that hundreds of thousands of soldiers had in their graves, poppies have become a symbol of the memorial that we owe them.

A more legible version of the poem can be found in: http://librivox.org/in-flanders-fields-by-john-mccrae/