Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, le lieutenant colonel John McCrae, médecin canadien, a écrit le poème célèbre In Flanders Fields (Au champ d'honneur) et, depuis, le coquelicot est devenu le symbole du souvenir.
During World War I, a Canadian doctor named Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a famous poem called " In Flanders Fields," and the poppy has since become the symbol of remembrance.