I remember the red poppies sold by Veterans ever since I was a child but did not know the significance of the flower.  After WWI, in France, thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for freedom lay and each spring are covered in a blanket of red poppies.  Moina Michael was a patriotic professor at the University of Georgia, and near the end of WWI, determined to remember those fallen heroes, made the red poppy the ‘miracle flower’, a remembrance of those who were gone.  Veterans for decades have sold the flowers near Veterans and Memorial Days, the proceeds going towards helping veterans and their families.  Sadly, after reading this book, I looked online for more information about Moina Michael and on a website from the UK found almost the whole story verbatim that was written in this book.