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

A transparent wall that’s 133 feet long and 8 1/2 feet tall will be filled with 645,000 red, synthetic poppy flowers. Each flower represents and honors a fallen service member.

The poppy flower has long been associated with veterans and their service, but what does it symbolize and why? The flower is commonly used on both Veterans Day and Memorial Day as a symbol to ...

The group in 1920 officially named the red poppy as the flower of remembrance. The poppies were worn on Armistice Day on Nov. 11. They also came to be used on Memorial Day as the nation honored ...

The poppy flower has long been associated with veterans and their service, but what does it symbolize and why? The flower is commonly used on both Veterans Day and Memorial Day as a symbol to ...

WASHINGTON — USAA is honoring the sacrifices of military men and women who laid down their lives for others this Memorial Day with a wall filled with hundreds of thousands of red poppy flowers.

In the rolling fields nearby, red poppy flowers were blooming. According to The History Channel, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae tended to the wounded after the battle, in which 87,000 Allied ...

Viewers of the NFL’s third and final London game of the season likely noticed players on the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars were wearing decals and patches featuring red flowers. Why ...

The red poppy became known as the "Flower of Remembrance" in the allied countries America, Britain, France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and became a symbol of the "war to end all wars" and ...

The flower became widely used starting in World War I thanks to a 1915 poem written by Canadian soldier Major John McCrae, "who saw firsthand from the front lines of World War I the emergence of ...