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Poppy Day will be different this year
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Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) in November will be different this year.

The last members of the generation that fought WWI are passing and with them the voices
directly from that terrible time, leaving as witness the photographic record from every country
and nation involved.

In our office, we find that what survived our school English lessons to become lifelong memories are
the war poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John MacRae and their peers. 
And later, looking back with the hindsight of decades, the words of Philip Larkin:
“Never such innocence/Never before or since…”


Click here for World War I

nn0064684 A field of poppies laid out outside Westminster Abbey. © National Pictures / TopFoto
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A field of poppies laid out outside Westminster Abbey. © National Pictures / TopFoto

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