You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.

On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still ...

While Michigan residents attend Memorial Day parades and ceremonies, many may see roundish, red flowers. Here's the meaning behind the red poppy.

Poppy seeds, long dormant on ... Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing ...

Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow / Loved ... die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields. Anna E. Guérin of France and Moina Michael of Georgia ...

The red poppy ... Fields." Later, McCrae died in 1918 from pneumonia. According to Veterans Affairs Canada, McCrae was buried with full military honors in Wimereux Communal Cemetery in France.

Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow Loved ... us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Anna E. Guérin of France and Moina Michael of Georgia both ...

A Canadian physician penned a poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy ... saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie, / In Flanders fields.