Although less common, the U.S. also uses the symbol — the Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted the first nationwide distribution of remembrance poppies before Memorial Day in 1922, and the ...

Memorial Day poppies: People wear poppies to honor America’s war dead in a Memorial Day tradition that dates back to the poem ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon ...

To the editor, I am a veteran and concur with Barbara Jean Harris on her comments that over the years Hyde Park businesses defer to Memorial Day as a “day off”. We offer poppi ...

And please visit PoppyCeremony.com and plan to be at the Iowa Building on Memorial Day.

People in Northeast El Paso have started to see poppies in the areas around the ... Leo Cancellare Memorial Pool to reopen The Leo Cancellare Memorial Pool will reopen at 10 a.m. Monday, March ...

Veterans gather at the Cenotaph war memorial in London for the service of remembrance on Armistice Day in 2008 ... on both remembrance days since 1995. Poppies were chosen as a symbol of ...