Thelma has nothing written in her diary today or tomorrow except notations about the cost of “eats” and “rides.” The nation observed Memorial Day in 1943 by wearing red poppies sold by the American Legion, a custom begun in the wake of World War I, inspired by the poem by Canadian poet, doctor and soldier John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields.”
In Flanders F…
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