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THE STORY OF THE “BUDDY"® POPPY”
A Tiny Flower Worn on Your Lapel Memorializes Fallen Heroes and Shows Respect for Returning Ones
Almost 100 years ago, after World War I had ended in 1918, an American woman, Moina Michael, having just re-read the poem, In Flanders Fields, which was already known around the world, pledged to wear a red poppy as a sign of remembrance. And she wrote a response to that poem entitled, We Shall Keep the Faith.
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