Specifically, the red flowers are poppy flowers. In previous years, the flowers had a green leaf as well as an inscription with a black ribbon across. This year, the leaf is gone but the ...

The red poppy's significance as a symbol of remembrance dates back to World War I. Inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" by Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae, the flower came to represent the ...

It’s encouraged by organizers to use this time to reflect silently on the lives lost represented by each flower. Each viewer leaves the display with their own red poppy pin. The 134-foot wall ...

(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 ...