During the battle of the Somme, France,1916, the British sustained 60,000 casualties on the first day. Torrential rains turned the battlefield into a quagmire. In one month the Allies advanced five miles at the cost of 450,000 German.200,000 French and 420,000 British lives. I lost two uncles <br /> <br /> <br />Blood red poppies sway <br />Over silent fields <br />Where birds no longer sing. <br /> <br />Once big guns roared <br />And young men <br />Suffered terror in the mud. <br /> <br />Chaplains searched the carnage for God <br />Finding him gassed and bloody <br />Crucified upon the wire <br />One poppy lost among the thousands.<br /><br />Colin Ian Jeffery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blood-red-poppies/
