Lest we forget

that there once was a time,

that men,

while up to their knees in mud and blood  

assaulted by the horrors of war,

still had the grace

to pick a flower,

press it,

and send it home to their loved ones

to comfort them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2561937/Flowers-frontline-Preserved-poppies-sent-soldiers-loved-ones-WWI-trenches-unearthed-time.html

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/canadian-soldiers-war-flowers-and-resilience-human-spirit