Seasonal & Holidays
Edmonds VFW Post Offers Buddy Poppies For Memorial Day
Members of Edmonds VFW Post #8870 will give away Buddy Poppies from locations in Westgate, Lynnwood, Mukilteo, and Edmonds this weekend.
From Edmonds Veterans of Foreign Wars:Each year, Edmonds Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8870 distributes the “Buddy Poppy” at four locations. VFW never sells the Buddy Poppy, it is offered freely to all to wear in honor of the fallen. Please accept it when offered and wear in it remembrance. VFW does gladly accept donations at all distribution locations. Those funds are used for a variety of efforts in support of veterans of all conflicts and their families, from the remaining survivors of World War II, to the young men and women of the post 9/11 era.
The poppy became a symbol of fallen soldiers as a result of a poem written by Col. John McCrae, a Canadian veteran of WW1. It’s poignant phrases apply to more recent casualties just as well as to those of World War I and begins:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row…
You will find members of Post 8870 distributing “Buddy Poppies” (as well as copies of the poem) at QFC stores at Westgate, Mukilteo Speedway and at 196th & 76, Lynnwood, as well as the Fred Meyer at 164th and Alderwood Mall Blvd. On Friday, May 24 & Saturday, May 25. Stop by. Tell us the stories of your families and friends so that we may honor them as well and walk away wearing a Buddy Poppy in their memory. Let us never forget.