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Sunshine was forecast, but the weather remained dull and bone-chilling for Saturday’s Remembrance service at the Cenotaph.

An organizer of Saturday's Remembrance Day ceremony in Downtown Vancouver wants anyone worried about a forecast of wild weather to try to imagine what it was like in the trenches of Europe during the First World War.

I came upon my first poppies when I moved into an old farmhouse that was depressingly drab and in need of extensive remodeling. Its only redeeming quality was a small

Enid Symphony Orchestras Fourth of July performance, under the direction of music director Douglas Newell, has a theme of “Superheroes!” and will begin at 8:30 p.m. and lead into a

This column would interest you in light of the recent holiday.

You may have seen many red poppies over the weekend. So why is the red flower used as a symbol around Memorial Day?

Hundreds of candles passed from veterans to youth inside the Canadian War Museum on Monday night, part of a special tradition during Veterans’ Week in Ottawa.

On May 30, Memorial Day, we honor those veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice by giving their lives for our great county. Memorial Day honors their service and sacrifice. Nearly 850 Veterans are buried in Lakeview Cemetery. Before Memorial Day, New Canaan war veterans distribute poppies to honor the ultimate sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. […]

Memorial Day letter from the New Canaan Chief of Police Leon M. Krolikowski FacebookTwitterEmail Editor, Advertiser: The weekend before Memorial Day finds many war veterans distributing poppies in order to honor the ultimate sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. In New Canaan, members of our local Veterans of Foreign War (VFW) Post 653 will distribute poppies in front of ACME Market, Walter Stewart’s Market and Dunkin’ Donuts. The significance of the poppy in honoring our nation’s war de...

The weekend before Memorial Day finds many war veterans distributing poppies in order to honor the ultimate sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. In New Canaan, members of our local Veterans of Foreign War Post 653 will distribute poppies in front of Walter Stewart’s Market, ACME Market and Dunkin Donuts. The significance of the poppy in honoring our nation’s war dead is traced to World War I. New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski From the battlefields of World War I, weary soldiers brou...