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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Every Memorial Day, when I run into the grocery store to pick up those last minute items for the three day weekend’s picnic, I’m met with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) selling their ...

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 ...

The corn poppy is a pesky weed, a sweet, delicate garden flower and, for the past century, the emblem of the human cost of war. The custom of wearing paper poppies to remember that cost has waned in ...