Some background on poet Ltc John McCrae and his poppies

This posting at the UK site commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Great War reveals an interesting background to the creation of McCrae's well-known 1915 poem, "In Flanders Fields."  Beyond the literary conceit that the red poppies grew out of the fallen soldiers' blood in the soil, the ecological reason for the poppies' appearance in Flanders is of equal interest. 


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/463717/Grow-with-pride-The-reason-we-remember-WWI-with-poppies