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This poster depicts the Grim Reaper gathering cross-shaped tombstones for his WPA
Federal Theatre Project performance of "If Ye Break Faith." Six warriors return from the dead in
the drama "If Ye Break Faith" in order to promote peace and prevent military conflict. Having
read "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael, an American professor near the end of World War I,
decided to wear a red poppy year-round as a tribute to the fallen troops. The poem "We Shall
Keep the Faith" was also written in reaction to her feelings. She gave out silk poppies to her
classmates and lobbied the American Legion to use them as an official emblem of memory. After
attending the 1920 conference when the Legion endorsed Michael's plan, Madame E. Guérin
became motivated to sell poppies in her own France to earn money for the war's orphans. Field
Marshal Douglas Haig took notice of Guérin's anti-Armistice Day poppy sales in London in
1921. Haig, a Royal British Legion co-founder, advocated and supported the sale. The practise
swiftly expanded across the British Empire. The wearing of poppies in the days running up to
Remembrance Day gets a lot of attention in many regions of the Commonwealth of Nations,
is one of the finest zoos in the world for raising species that are difficult to reproduce in
captivity. The zoo is routinely regarded as one of the best zoological sites in the United States,
alongside the San Diego Zoo and ZooTampa at Lowry Park. The Great Depression, which ran
from 1929 to 1941, was marked in both the Philadelphia area and the country by a severe
contraction in all levels of economic activity, vast unemployment, numerous bank failures, and
steep price deflation. Savings and houses were taken from many individuals.