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I'll be damned that I've forgotten to wear my poppy today, but won't tomorrow.

They do not appear to be a custom in the country where I am transplanted, U.S.A., but back in Canada they are an important symbol of our national pride for our servicemen and women. Lt.Col. John McCrae is of course a Canadian. A very good article appears in Wikipedia