Auxiliary members promote the poppy program via a poppy poster contest in this 1960s-era photo. Perhaps you've seen veterans distributing little red paper poppies outside grocery stores and ...

With Memorial Day weekend here, you’ll probably see more than one red paper poppy. They’ve long been a symbol of the blood shed by fallen American soldiers. When I was little, we used to buy the ...

Vibrant red poppies, symbolizing bloodshed from World War I, must be assembled delicately. Four ironed paper petals must neatly wrap around a green wire with a paper pistil at its end. The task is ...

LONDON – William Sellick pinched the tiny scarlet petals with deft ease, turning them into paper poppies and pressing them into a wreath. The flowers are a potent symbol of remembrance and patriotism ...

You may see a veterans group man a table with a donation can and tiny poppies made of blood-red paper or silk outside your local supermarket or shopping center just before Memorial Day or Veterans Day ...

WARREN TWP. – Member of American Legion posts and their Ladies Auxiliaries can be seen during May holding bright red crepe paper poppies which they will happily exchange for a donation. May is the ...

I remember on countless occasions as a youngster seeing little old men in front of business establishments selling artificial red paper poppies. They even came to our door. My mother, who frequently ...

I remember, when I was a child, men selling paper poppies for 10 cents on Nov. 11. Looking back, I think they must have been veterans. I don’t know when that was discontinued. Someone I know in ...

“Mom, why would someone would be selling paper poppies in a grocery store parking lot?” Son Dan was home from college that spring. Oh dear, I wondered, what else I’d neglected to teach him? Red crepe ...

Betty Robarts could solder with the best of them; her father taught her to join wires while growing up in Minnesota. Robarts, now 95, could also swim quite well; she captured four state titles in the ...