As Michigan residents honor fallen military personnel over Memorial Day, many will wear a delicate, red poppy – in remembrance of the lives lost on battlefields where these flowers once grew. "The red ...

On Monday, May 26, millions of people around the United States will be observing Memorial Day and honoring members of the military who have fallen in the line of duty, protecting the country and our ...

WASHINGTON -- This Memorial Day weekend, a massive display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., honors the life of every service member lost since World War I. The Poppy Wall of Honor has ...

This video is no longer available. The Poppy Wall of Honor organized by USAA returned to the National Mall for the sixth year in honor of Memorial Day. The temporary installation features 600,000 ...

(WYTV) — You may run into people selling little red poppy flowers, just paper, around Memorial Day. The red poppy, also called the Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of the soldiers we lost in World ...

On Memorial Day, 600,000 is not just a number and the poppy is not just a flower. Put the two together and something remarkable is created. That something is USAA’s Poppy Wall of Honor, which returned ...

"Memorial Day may be our most sacred holiday," Vice Adm. John Bird said. While Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, celebrated by many with cookouts and pool parties, the holiday's purpose ...

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 342, which meets at the Harold B. Jarrett American Legion Building, 1024 Lincolnton Road, is encouraging the community to honor fallen warriors on National Poppy Day. On ...

Riverhead students, in a project that fuses art and history, have planted a field of more than 1,000 handmade ceramic poppies at the entrance to Calverton National Cemetery as a solemn Memorial Day ...

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military personnel. The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by John McCrae.