The Armistice day and the red poppy lapel.

REMEMBERING War Veterans: The British in vast majority are seen wearing the 'poppy' flower on their lapels, Like Prince Charles and his wife, these days. Be it taxi driver or a newscaster on TV, the poppy is present on most of the lapels. This is in honour of those who died in WWI. The Armistice day or the Veterans day is held on 11.11 (Nov.), at 11.11 AM. it is also called Rememberence day or Poppy day.
India too lost quite many lives in WWI (all the names etched on India Gate) but not a soul is seen wearing a Poppy here. This is how we show respect to the Veterans !
Our Defense minister, or any other minister had no time to attend the funeral of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, the General who gave India its biggest war victory in the past 2000 year in 1971. There is not even a lane named after this General in Delhi. And we have a statue and an arterial road named after Krishna Menon, who, in collaboration with Nehru and Gen. Kaul, not only got us defeat at the hands of Chinese, but also bought for the country's army, defective Jeeps and moth eaten blankets in a major scam.
This is the way we respect the winners and loosers!

Here is the poem "In Flanders Fields", written by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae., which is often associated with the Poppy day :
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.......