# Poppy Day the day on which the end of World War I (November 11, 1918) is celebrated (also called Remembrance Day or Armistice Day). Artificial red poppies (recalling the poppies of Flanders fields, a strategic battleground of World War 1) are traditionally sold in aid of ex-servicemen. These became an emblem of World War veterans based on the poem, "In Flanders Fields" written in 1915 by John McCrae (1872-1918 physician and poet) which -has the following lines: "If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields."