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If At Isadore Hoehn VFW Post 7397, our amazing Auxiliary leads the Buddy Poppy program! We conduct this twice a year:
- May Armed Forces Day
- November Around Veterans Day
They need volunteers to make the program successful. We need volunteers, comrades and other VFW supporters such as spouses, children, and friends, who will volunteer an
If At Isadore Hoehn VFW Post 7397, our amazing Auxiliary leads the Buddy Poppy program! We conduct this twice a year:
- May Armed Forces Day
- November Around Veterans Day
They need volunteers to make the program successful. We need volunteers, comrades and other VFW supporters such as spouses, children, and friends, who will volunteer an hour or two to hand out Buddy Poppy’s and tell people about the VFW and the Buddy Poppy program.
Please donate your time on November 8th between 9am and 3pm at one of the locations below by signing up at the link.
If you would like to support the cause, please join us at one of our outreach locations on Saturday, November 8th 2025 from 9am-3pm.
If you have questions, please contact
Tanya Brunning at 785-231-8127 (Cell)
Lenexa Hy-Vee, 87th & Pflumm
Olathe Hy-Vee, 119th & Ridgview
Shawnee Hy-Vee, Shawnee Mission Parkway & Pflumm
Buddy Poppy History
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Before Memorial Day in 1922, we conducted our first poppy distribution, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, as it remains today.
This program provides compensation to those who asse
Before Memorial Day in 1922, we conducted our first poppy distribution, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, as it remains today.
This program provides compensation to those who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans' rehabilitation and service programs and partially supports the VFW National Home.
In Flanders Fields
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In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the
by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you, from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,
In Flanders fields.