The flower is commonly used on both Veterans Day and Memorial Day as a symbol to commemorate ... front lines of World War I the emergence of red poppies around the graves and in the battle zones ...

But when did the red poppy became a national symbol of remembrance—and more interestingly, how did this particular bloom become the official Memorial Day flower in the first place? To explain ...

and how the field of the dead looked more like a meadow of poppies growing toward the sky. The following day, while sitting in the back of an ambulance, he wrote this poem: Hugo man sentenced to ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent ... The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen ...