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What Does the Poppy Symbolize?
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Poppies symbolize the departed who fought for freedom. The poppy was chosen to be the symbol of remembrance because it was the only other living thing that survived during the war. With every warm season It brought hope, life, colour and reassurance to those who were still in war fighting to free their people.
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A poppy is used as a symbol of remembrance. It is associated with the remembrance of those who died in order that we may be free, throughout the world. The poppy flowers in rooted up soil and its seeds can lay in the ground for years without germinating and only grow after the ground has been disturbed.
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the poppy symbolizes the many soldiers that died in ww1, the soldiers died in a poppy field. so now on rememberence day everyone wears a poppy to remember the brave men that fought
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The poppy symbol is for when the people risked there lives to save us and it symbols the dead
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because she is the godess of marriage and hospitality
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Red symbolizes the blood of the fallen soldiers, black is the grief over them, and green is the hope.
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