This is a quick one I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
I’m not sure how universally known it is, but I know it goes
beyond Canada cuz I’ve seen British politicos wear it. It’s not
just about remembering mistakes and glories of the past,
but the ideals that many gave their lives for.
Here are a couple of icons (which you are free to use on your
website)
If you use one of the above, please donate a quarter (.25 euros)
to your local vetrans’ association.
The .blend file is also going up, so you can make your own icons
(respectfully, please) with that library (all imports on level 1)
if you wish to. I’d love to see them.
Every year we have the poppy appeal in the UK, and by the sounds of it across the commonwealth too. It raises money for the veterans and their families, and helps to prevent people forgetting the sacrifices that were made for us all, no matter how long ago it might seem now.
A very worthwhile cause, one I give to every year…
Christ on a crutch!! Don’t you youngsters go to school?
The poppy blossom was chosen as an icon to remember the dead of WWI due to a short poem by John McCrae (In Flanders field where poppies blow, beneath the crosses, row on row…) The poem was written during the fighting in the Ypres salient in World War I. I’m from Flanders myself, and I can tell you that small piece of Europe is littered with War cemetaries filled with 18-23 year old guys. Every evening for the past 75+ years, we have played Last Post at the Menin Gate, a memorial inscribed with the names of tens of thousands of commonwealth soldiers whose bodies were never even found.
Just Google around a bit. Links aplenty…
