>It has come to my attention that poppies aren't worn on Vetran's day in the US. I'd thought that was an international thing.
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>http://www.canoe.ca/RemembranceDay/poppy.html

I grew up in Philadelphia and don't ever remember seeing that. I assume the custom comes from the poem "In Flanders Field the poppies grow" (and that's all I know of it <g>).

Tamar