Good morning, it's Monday, May 28, 2018 -- Memorial Day. In Washington, D.C., the weather wasn't great this weekend, but anyone from this area -- or from out of town -- who visited the National Mall was greeted with a wall of red poppies honoring the men and women who have died in uniform in the century since World War I.
NPR ran a nice feature about the art project, which used 645,000 synthetic flowers, one for each American soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine killed in an international conflict during the past century. Poppies themselves are an even more universal symbol of the fallen, thanks to a Canadian soldier-poet who died 100 years ago in France.
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