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Show VFW to sponsor Poppy Day May 24 The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary will greet residents resi-dents Saturday, May 24 for "Buddy Poppy Day," in honor hon-or of disabled veterans in hos-; hos-; pitals and veterans homes throughout the United States. The Buddy Poppy Is produced produc-ed by Veterans with materials supplied by the VFW and the funds derived from the sale of the Buddy Poppy each year are used to assist these men who have served their country and their fellow men. The major portion of the donation stays in the community com-munity where it is used by the Post and Auxiliary in carrying car-rying out local relief pro: grams and "oilier services to the needy or disabled veteran and his family. A portion of the proceeds go to the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids, Ra-pids, Mich, where hundreds of orphans of deceased veterans are raised in the family atmosphere at-mosphere they would have had if their fathers had lived. |