‘We Keep This Sacred Promise Alive’
The VFW became the first veterans service organization to distribute poppies as a tribute to fallen World War I veterans. Since 1922, the VFW has conducted poppy drives, making the red flower of remembrance the official flower of the VFW. Just two years later, on May 20, 1924, the VFW was granted trademark rights for the name Buddy Poppy under the classification of artificial flowers. To this day,...