Show POPPY AS MEMORIAL FLOWER tacoma wash post adopts resolution urging fields blos corn be made official A request lias been received by franl alln D national comander ot ohp lesion to have the shirlev poppy adopted as the memorial flower of the I 1 eglon the request with the rdward H rhodes post no 2 of tacoma vash which ins adopted a resolution favoring the adoption of the the resolution adopted by the wish ington post ans as follows 1 est we in alie day s w ork sur by home and happiness forget our comrades who sleep in I 1 ranee and here in alie arms of the kotlier and lest e forget that greater love of these american hoys lio gave their lives for their fellow men lest ve forget that in I 1 lanceri fields the copples gro the crosses row on row ard that nature seems to hae raised in these simple flowers the most eloquent monument a waving scarlet blessing ocr gi a es be it the adward f rhodes post american legion rate a movement to have the sharley poppy adopted as the lower of the american I 1 eglon ahat the american legion lake steps to assist and urge every public paik cemetery and every arl mite garden in to the men who made alie supreme sacrifice do during the coming spring and sum mer and every and summer thereafter revere the memory of our soldier dead bv salting aside a plot for continued display of iving red poppies tant n red be worn bv member 0 the american legion on memorial aty it Is probable that a similar resolution mill be introduced by the post at the next convention of the american legion which la to be held in cleveland 0 |