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Show 'Annual Poppy Drive May 29th "The poppies have arrived!" This was the word that flashed flash-ed to members of the American Legion Auxiliary here today and brought many of them to the Legion Home to begin the work of arranging the little red flowers flow-ers for Poppy Day, May 29. The poppies, fifteen hundred of them, were in boxes shipped from Salt Lake City where they were made by disabled war veterans vet-erans under direction of Helen Anderson of the Department of the Auxiliary. Shaped patiently by hand, each little flower is a replica in crepe paper of the flowers that bloomed bloom-ed on the battle fields of the first World War. Each is slightly slight-ly different, but, as Mrs. Murray Murdock, Auxiliary Poppy Chairman Chair-man explained, all have the same deep meaning. "Flanders Field are on the other oth-er side of the world from Guadalcanal Guadal-canal and a quarter of a century distant in time but the little wild poppy of Flanders speaks for the dead of both battles," said Mrs. Murdock. |