WAR POETS In Flanders Fields

It is certainly no coincidence that red poppies are found in many and many anti-war songs: traditionally, in the Anglo-Saxon world, these flowers are dedicated to the memory of the victims on the battlefields of the First and Second World War. 

It seems to go back to this poem by John Mccrae, which later became a song with the music of Luc Wynants; and it is so, for example, that in Britain, on  "Armistice Day", everyone brings a red poppy to the buttonhole. 

But it seems to go back much further back in time: it is said that Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor and leader who conquered the greatest empire history has ever seen, always carried with him seeds of poppy that spread on the battlefields after his victories, in remembrance and respect of those who had fallen there, and also to "mark", with the color of those flowers, that there had been a battle.