A wall featuring over 600,000 poppies has gone up in Washington D.C., to honour fallen service members this memorial weekend.
Each flower represents a person who died during U.S. military service since World War I. At the memorial people can also discover the stories of U.S. soldiers killed in conflict as a way to keep their memory alive.
00:00A wall featuring over 600,000 poppies has gone up in Washington, D.C. to honor fallen service members this memorial weekend.
00:08Each flower represents a person who died during U.S. military service since World War I.
00:14At the memorial, people can also discover the stories of U.S. soldiers killed in conflict as a way to keep their memory alive.
00:20So these panels are here. This is over 600,000 poppies that represent the over 600,000 people that have died in combat since World War I.
00:31And when people come and visit this wall, you quickly identify a poppy as their person that was lost in combat.
00:38So Gold Star moms here, soldiers, airmen, all from each branch of service that come and visit the wall to have some purpose to recognize that person that they lost.
00:47So we do this by putting up this wall here, and then on the other side of the wall is all information about all the wars and certain key points about the wars is World War I to our current conflict.
00:59And that's what it's all about, the poppy field of people that love their country enough to do what was right. And that's what it means to me.
01:08The 134-foot poppy wall of honor was first set up at the National Mall in 2018, bringing tens of thousands of visitors.
