Well,maybe I am the oldest person in these forums. No one replied to my request for info regarding the poppies. To my surprise, the VFW appears to still make them and sell them to help the veterans and their families. The program is called Buddy Poppy. I remember when I was a kid, I thought the little paper flowers were so pretty. I think we bought them to put them on the graves of our war dead. The tradition stems from the time when the poem "In Flanders Field" by Col. John McCrae of Canada was published. You can read this poignant poem at

www.sherylfranklin.com/holidays/veterans_day.html


and read about the Buddy Poppy program at

www.vfw.org/index.cm?a=comty.levelc&cid+127&tok=1