Buddy Poppy days this weekend

This weekend the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 760 and Ladies Auxiliary are holding their annual Buddy Poppy days in Jamestown. Volunteers will be distributing poppies and accepting donations from noon to 6 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Hugo’s, County Market and Buffalo Mall.

Buddy Poppy is a nation-wide VFW program that has raised money to benefit veterans and their dependents for more than 80 years.

VFW Buddy Poppies are assembled by disabled and needy veterans in VA Hospitals, with donations used by local chapters. Some of the programs supported by Post 760 include the Veteran’s Relief Fund, North Dakota Veterans Home, North Dakota Veterans Cemetery and the Ladies Auxiliary cancer research program.

Poppies were chosen as a remembrance of fallen soldiers after a poem written during WWI by Col. John McCrae of Canada, “In Flander’s Field,” which contains the lines: “In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row.”

Tags: vfw, fund, raising, poppy