On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.

Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired ...

Representatives with the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) offered enough red crepe paper poppies for every Redding Veterans ...

Red poppies are worn on Memorial Day to honor fallen military members. The tradition started during World War I, inspired by a poem and the poppies growing on battlefields. The American Legion and ...

Left: Poppies are a symbol of the service and sacrifice of men and women in uniform — every year on May 23, The American ...

The Farmington American Legion Unit 189 Auxiliary leaders Kim Lomas, left, and Vickie Heggen will hand out bright red poppy ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen ...

The red poppy, or Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War I (1914–1918). Also known as Memorial Day poppies, these artificial flowers actually play a big part in the ...

Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz has proclaimed Friday, May 23 as “National Poppy Day” in the city. “The red poppy became a ...

Friday, May 23 marks National Poppy Day, according to the American Legion Auxiliary— and a special event has been organized ...

Two giants of the women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, have teamed up for a picture book ...