The Calexico Baja Runners hosted a Memorial Day service at Mountain View Cemetery in Calexico on Monday, May 26, to honor ...

Chicago Public Schools high school students are blending art and history to make a public display for Memorial Day. At Lane Tech High School, a different kind of garden is blooming.

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, also called the Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of the soldiers we lost in World War I, from 1914 to 1918.

Visitors to northeast Calgary's Rotary Park will soon find the iconic Centre Street Bridge lion sculpture surrounded by ...

Hearing Taps played at a military funeral is considered one of the most sobering of moments when reflecting on the loss of a ...

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

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 ...

Join an Alberta May Plant Count event near you! As spring takes hold and Alberta’s landscapes burst into bloom, Nature Alberta and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) invite nature lovers of all ...

The American Legion Auxiliary annually distributes the memorial flower to honor those who served and to remind Americans of the cost of freedom. “Poppy Day has always been set aside as a tribute ...

Surrounded by the Farmers Union Canal and blossoming poppy flowers, Boise Brew Putt is the perfect sunny-day drinking spot with loads of fun.