Poppy (or as Sabrina calls her: Hammie Mae) in the pool with her mom, Iris. Photo: Courtesy of the Metro Richmond Zoo.

I loved all the poppy art on and in the center. Why poppies? First, a little history. Flanders, in Belgium, saw brutal battles during World War I. Following the carnage, dormant poppy seeds ...

The spark for the endowment of the field poppy with the heavy burden of becoming the international symbol of remembrance came from the opening lines of a poem entitled ‘In Flanders Fields’, written by ...

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