As I walked into the grocery store yesterday I stopped to donate to the VFW and get my red poppy, I chatted briefly with the elderly lady handing them out, telling her my father, late husband and my son were all veterans. She told me hers too, and that she had been handing out red poppies for seventy years. Amazing! These poppies are made by veterans, and the benefits go to veterans and their families and for their memory. The association of the red poppy with war veterans came from a poem "In Flander's Field" written in 1918. We have the text of it in our reference section under Military Quotes and Songs. It would look great on our new Red Poppy Paper from Scrap Your Trip.
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