How to add a poppy to your Facebook and Twitter profiles

This year, will see 11 November fall on a Friday and Remembrance Sunday on 13 November. If you would like to mark Remembrance Day on your Twitter and Facebook profiles you can use a simple app called Twibbon.

Simply click here, to go to the app where you can then click on the “Add Facebook” or “Add Twitter” icon and the poppy will appear on your profile picture. You can also add a message of support for your followers to see.

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What was the inspiration for the Remembrance Day Poppy?

Apparently the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem “In Flanders Fields”; written by Major John McCrae after conducting the burial service of his friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who was killed in a gun position near Ypres. It is believed that Major McCrae began drafting the poem that evening.

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, May 1945

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
 
We are the Dead. Short days ago
 We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
 Loved and were loved, and now we lie
 In Flanders fields.
 
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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