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You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.
Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired ...
More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen ...
On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.
The American Legion Auxiliary in North Platte is honoring veterans by accepting donations for hand-made poppies.
Lily and Kimball Burrill of Albany; and Maren DeCato of Bethel represent Bethel and Greenwood American Legions ...
The red poppy, or Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War I (1914–1918). Also known as ...
Memorial Day, observed on Monday, May 26 this year, is a federal holiday in the United States that is dedicated to honoring ...
In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing, fly. / Scarce heard amid the guns below.