Air Force Lt. Gen Charles Q. Brown Jr., deputy commander, Central Command, places a red poppy on an Anzac Day memorial during a dawn service on the beach at MacDill Air Force Base, April 25. The red, or Flanders, poppy has become a universal symbol of war remembrance since World War I when Lt. Col. John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer, noticing the plant blooming in a cemetery, penned ‘In Flanders Fields.’ Personnel and family members from Central Command, Special Operations Command, and MacDill AFB attended the commemoration service that marks the anniversary of the mil

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Air Force Lt. Gen Charles Q. Brown Jr., deputy commander, Central Command, places a red poppy on an Anzac Day memorial during a dawn service on the beach at MacDill Air Force Base, April 25. The red, or Flanders, poppy has become a universal symbol of war remembrance since World War I when Lt. Col. John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer, noticing the plant blooming in a cemetery, penned ‘In Flanders Fields.’ Personnel and family members from Central Command, Special Operations Command, and MacDill AFB attended the commemoration service that marks the anniversary of the military campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during World War I. Anzac Day also commemorates the lives lost by Australians and New Zealanders during World War II and subsequent military and peacekeeping operations. (Photo by Tom Gagnier)

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