While Michigan residents attend Memorial Day parades and ceremonies, many may see roundish, red flowers. Here's the meaning behind the red poppy.

As living forms, as art, and as symbols ... to become a national icon of comradeship, the flowers had to be coloured red because it is the poppy’s redness that made it the official symbol ...

The poppy flower has long been associated with veterans ... "who saw firsthand from the front lines of World War I the emergence of red poppies around the graves and in the battle zones where ...

Millions of people in countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Belgium, celebrate Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, every Nov. 11, by wearing red poppy flowers to ...

Some of them will be wearing red flowers on their lapels. You may also see people wearing them on Friday, May 23, for National Poppy Day. Why? It started during World War I. Where did the red ...

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.