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[Say Nay]

I don't know if anyone posted this before but it's spectacular. If you watch it make sure you do it in full screen.

Drone view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWY6tKgN78

Hand making each poppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58aX_EBwzr4

[kdgn]

Oh my, I didn't realize each poppy in that field was made by hand!! How truly powerful-

Thank you Gato for sharing this with us.

[brii]

That is amazing.

[JustJules]

How fantastic!!! Truly beautiful, thank you for sharing that. What a lovely tribute and perfect for Veteran's Day. Poppies are one of my favorite flowers, I used to have a garden full of them. They are very hardy flowers and each season they came back more than the season before. It's interesting that they selected that flower to use in the memorial. My grandfather on my mom's side in England fought during WWI. He died before I was born but he passed down some incredible stories that my mom told me about him during that time. He was lucky to survive that war and went on to marry the love of his life, have a son and four beautiful daughters and ended up running a pub. I didn't know about that memorial, but it certainly makes me smile.

[Preds]

Awesome and wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

[misspammie]

thank you so much,,,have forwarded often

[Free2be]

Amazing. Is there anything better than people gathered together to make something beautiful? And for the memory, so many gave everything.

[AnikaBrodie]

Wonderful tribute. I read there are 888,246 poppies planted there. Each poppy represents a solder who died in WWI. Awesome ...

[Say Nay]

The final poppy was "planted" by this young man, cadet Harry Hayes, 13, from Reading Blue Coat School.

[colliemom4]

That's odd. I just posted on this thread and it vanished. This is amazing and so beautiful. I love poppies too. Thanks for sharing.