Show o u Saturday May 2 21 Is Poppy Day The use of the poppy as a memorial memorial memorial mem mem- orial flower for the dead of the World War Var came naturally to the theman theman man who served in France during the first World War The brave little ittle flowers grew and were beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- where there was nothing but death and the hideous destruction of war The flowers grew along the edges of trenches about ragged shell holes b beneath neath tangles of barbed wire and over the fresh graves of brave men who had given given given en their lives for the countries they loved and fought for Colonel John McCrae wrote the familiar poem In Flanders' Flanders Fields and he himself was killed and buried beneath the poppies of which he wrote In Flanders' Flanders Fields where the poppies blow Between white crosses row on row row For the men who returned from the war there was a memory of their dead comrades who were buried in fields where poppies grew and many of these men came back suffering wounds and injuries which were almost worse than death In the poppy was found a away away away way to link the honoring of the dead with service for the living Hying victims s of the ther war var and soon poppies poppies poppies pop pop- pies made by disabled disabled veterans were being sold Poppies were first sold in New York City as s the people of that great city turned turned turned turn turn- ed out to welcome home the Infantry Division In every veterans' veterans hospital where the wounded and disabled men from rom the two World Wars Vars lay there is a workshop where poppies are arc made and sent to units of the American Legion Auxiliary who sell them publicly The money money money mon mon- I ey received from poppy sales is returned to the veterans' veterans hospitals where it is used to buy added comforts for the veterans who are arc there and to help their hospital buddies who are sent forth from the hospital mended but not re repaired repaired repaired re- re paired well enough to be working as new to face facea a new life Saturday May 21 has been set aside as Poppy Day for Manti and members of the Legion Auxiliary Auxiliary Auxiliary iary will be about town all day selling the little red flowers so that the disabled veterans from two great wars might have additional addi- addi ional comforts and benefits in the life ife of misery and haunting memories memories memories ies that they are now leading |