battlefield to buttonhole poppies made of shells

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... hells.html


Almost a century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, the shells that they fired are being returned to Britain in a remarkable act of remembrance to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.


Hundreds of brass fuse caps, which were primed to detonate on impact with enemy targets, lie scattered along the 450-mile former front line.
Now the once-deadly objects are finding a peaceful new lease of life − as commemorative “poppies”, struck by the Royal British Legion.
The conical 1lb fuses, once produced in their millions by munitions workers in Britain before being shipped to France and Belgium, are being melted down in a furnace in the Midlands at more than 1,000 degrees centigrade.

[Berry1196]

What an Amazing idea,a great commemorative idea I can't wait to see the finished product