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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Even in the darkest of times, flowers still find their way to the surface to bloom. Poppy seeds can lay fallow for years, yet bloom brilliantly when the soil is disturbed or when the soil is freshly ...