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A glass walkway overlooks a large rectangular display filled with red poppies at the National World War I Museum. The area around the flowers is grey, drawing focus to the bright poppies below.

It is a quote that was credited to Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the United States for the entire duration of World War I, but the phrase actually came from the title of a 1914 book of essays from H. G. Wells.