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

Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen ...

Wearing a poppy was inspired by the fields of poppies that grew where many ... Instead they might choose to wear a white poppy. The white poppy is handed out by a charity called Peace Pledge ...

BOURBON COUNTY, Ky. ( WKYT /Gray News) - On the eve of Memorial Day, one central Kentucky farm took advantage of their flowers in full bloom to bring awareness to the reason for the long weekend. For ...

ONE CENTRAL KENTUCKY FARM TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEIR POPPY FIELD TO BRING AWARENESS TO MEMORIAL DAY. THE POPPY IS A SYMBOL OF REMEMBRANCE FOR FALLEN SOLDIERS. A SIGN AT SPRINGS FARM IN BOURBON COUNTY ...

It opens: "In Flanders fields, the poppies blow / Between the crosses ... with the blue uniforms French soldiers wore during the First World War. The white poppy has been adopted as an alternative to ...

For instance, the white poppy is a symbol for peace as a pledge ... around the time he wrote his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." Later, McCrae died in 1918 from pneumonia.