Riverhead High School’s ceramic poppy art installation has a new home. The red ceramic poppies, hand-crafted by art students since 2021, now grace the main entrance of Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial Day stems from the aftermath of the Civil War, when Americans sought ways to honor the loss of life from that ...

The Woodburn American Legion Auxiliary Post #157 helps provide support for veterans and their families. Most recently, the ...

On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.

The red poppy, or Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War I (1914–1918). Also known as ...

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

In Flanders Fields The Poppies Blow…” These are the opening words of Col. John McCrae’s immortal poem (In Flanders Field) ...

Members of Wharton County’s five veterans service organizations have always participated in Memorial Day and Veterans Day ...

On the first Tuesday of each month, a small group of Hyde Park veterans gather at Valois Restaurant to share coffee, eggs and a heaping side of conversation.

Roughly 60 volunteers, from first-graders to grandparents planted 16,000 plants in 90 minutes at Yanney Heritage Park ...

Field of poppy flowers People take a stroll beside a field of poppy flowers in Osan, south of Seoul, on May 20, 2025. (Yonhap ...