The American Legion Auxiliary Unit #168 will be at the Thriftway grocery store to distribute poppies to honor the fallen and support the living veterans.
The Flanders Field poppy is a recognized symbol of the lives sacrificed in war and the hope that none died in vain. Replicas of poppies were first distributed after WW1, inspired by the poem 'In Flanders Field' written by Col. John McCrane in 1915…