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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Grandma Leora Wilson wore a red crepe paper poppy as she stooped beside a headstone in Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry to arrange flowers from her garden for this Memorial Day ritual. A small silver ...

“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 ...

Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 -- The nation could do worse than wear the white poppy this November, perhaps along with the red. Thus we might commemorate a time when a strong and generous nation went to the ...

You may see veterans organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW asking for donations in exchange for a red paper poppy. But do you know what the poppy stands for? The ...

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 ...