Support for Poppy Day blossoms
Groups of local organisations and schools helped collect donations for the ex-servicemen and women through the sale of poppies.
THE SA Legion, in conjunction with the Highway MOTHs (Memorable Order of Tin Hats), members of the local SANDF Reserve Forces and learners from Hillcrest and Kloof High School, held Poppy Day collections at a number of shopping centres in the Highway area on Saturday.
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Poppy Day marks the end of World War I when shortly after the war, poppies sprung up across the battlefields of Western Europe where forests and fields had been destroyed during this terrible war.
It is for this reason that people wear poppies on Remembrance Day.
The annual Poppy Day collection helps raise awareness to ensure remembrance of those who gave their lives during past wars and to raise funds to assist all military veterans and their families who are in need.
In World War I, about 245 000 South Africans of all races volunteered for military service; during World War II, nearly 342 700 South African men and women of every race came forward. Thousands of South Africans died in both these world wars.
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