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

You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.

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 ...

In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders ... after its formation in 1921. The White Poppy was first introduced by the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1933 and was intended as a ...

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 ...