WASHINGTON -- This Memorial Day, a massive display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., honors the life of every service member lost since World War I. The Poppy Memorial contains 645,000 red ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row" These words, penned by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian who served as a brigade surgeon for an Allied artillery unit on ...

"Memorial Day may be our most sacred holiday," Vice Adm. John Bird said. While Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, celebrated by many with cookouts and pool parties, the holiday's purpose ...

(WYTV) — You may run into people selling little red poppy flowers, just paper, around Memorial Day. The red poppy, also called the Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of the soldiers we lost in World ...

WASHINGTON -- This Memorial Day weekend, a massive display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., honors the life of every service member lost since World War I. The Poppy Wall of Honor has ...

As Michigan residents honor fallen military personnel over Memorial Day, many will wear a delicate, red poppy – in remembrance of the lives lost on battlefields where these flowers once grew. "The red ...

Photo provided The tradition of remembering those who lost their lives in military service by wearing a poppy began after World War I. Now, donations to purchase a poppy support veterans, active-duty ...

STRASBURG — Poppies have long been associated with those who died in service to their country, who are honored on Memorial Day. The association was immortalized in the poem “In Flanders Fields,” by ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On the Friday before Memorial Day, many people wear a poppy to honor and support all troops who have served our country. It reminds us of the sacrifices our veterans make to ...