Red poppies have come to symbolize remembrance of WWI.
After the Second Battle of Ypres, a Canadian doctor named John McCrae noticed red poppies growing near one of Flanders' Fields' mass cemeteries. He wrote a poem, “In Flanders Fields,” in 1915, which was eventually published in Britain. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow,” wrote McCrae, “Between the crosses, row on row.” It went on to become the war’s most popular and most recognized poem in the United States and Great Britain.
The poem, which muses on the existence of poppies in a cemetery and encourages people to take up the torch in honor of their fallen countrymen, became a powerful recruiting tool for the Allies. (Lines from the poem and red poppies even appeared on the back of the Canadian $10 bill for a time.) Red poppies began to appear not just on posters encouraging people to sign up for the army or to buy war bonds, but in ceremonies honoring the war dead.
As the BBC reports, an American woman named Moina Michael read McCrae’s poem and vowed to wear a red poppy every day until she died. She began to distribute silk poppies and her work led women from Allied nations to sell artificial poppies to raise funds for war victims after the war. A symbol had been born—one that persists to this day. (Blakemore, Erin. "How the Poppy Came to Symbolize World War I." Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, 20 Oct. 2016. Web. 13 Sept. 2017. )
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At gate in parking area, follow asphalt path until you get to first sign post which says .4 miles. Turn left. Walk straight for 135 feet. You should be on a small path into the tree line. At about 5 feet into tree area there is an old rootball to your right. Cache is in there.