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Poppy Presented to Bahamas Governor General
By BIS
Oct 23, 2014 - 2:44:37 PM

NASSAU, The Bahamas -- Officers and members of the British Legion Bahamas Branch paid a courtesy call and presented Her Excellency the Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling with the ‘First Poppy’ of Remembrance at Government House on Monday, October 20, 2014.

The poppy was presented to the Governor General in recognition of upcoming Remembrance Day in November to memorialize those who lost their lives in war. The remembrance poppy alludes to poppies that bloomed on battlefields of Flanders in World War 1.

(BIS Photo/Letisha Henderson)

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