American Legion poppies to support veterans
by Edith Rohrbeck American Legion Auxiliary
Members of the Sheboygan Falls American Legion Auxiliary Post 149 understand the sacrifice past and present U.S. Armed Forces service members have made to preserve freedom.
In honor of all service members, the Sheboygan Falls American Legion Auxiliary will wear a red memorial poppy, as a symbol of the price of war and the sacrifice of millions, as well as a show of appreciation.
The 900,000 members of the American Legion Auxiliary, the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization, are asking everyone to wear a poppy on Memorial Day weekend.
Wear it in honor of the millions of Americans, who have willingly service our nation. Too many of them have made the ultimate sacrifice.
The poppy also honors Wisconsin’s disabled veterans at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, who make the red crepe paper poppy.
Wisconsin’s red poppies provide financial and therapeutic benefit to these veterans, as well as thousands of veterans and their families, who benefit from the donations collected from the distribution of the American Legion Auxiliary poppy.
In the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, poppies grew wild amid the ravages of war. The overturned soils of battle enabled poppy seeds to be covered, allowing them to grow and forever serve as a reminder of the bloodshed of war.
Please join the Sheboygan Falls American Legion Auxiliary, from May 14 to Memorial Day, May 31, in recognizing the sacrifice of our veterans by making a donation to the veterans’ poppy fund and wearing a memorial poppy this Memorial Day weekend.
The funds collected from the American Legion Auxiliary’s poppy sales are restricted and my be used only for rehabilitation of veterans honorably discharged from the United State Armed Forces, after April 5, 1917.
Department bylaws provide that two separate fund records must be maintained for a general fund and a welfare (poppy) fund. They may be kept in one account.
All poppy profits shall be place in the welfare (poppy) fund and used exclusively for service work for veterans’ affairs and rehabilitation, along with children and youth. Expenditures from the poppy funds must be for needy veterans and their families only.
The Sheboygan Falls American Legion Auxiliary distributes the poppy fund to Zablocki VA, Madison VA and Tomah VA centers, as well as the We Veteran Home in King.
It also distribute funds to the Minnesota VA and Iron Mountain VA centers, as well as Camp American Legion.
The Sheboygan Falls American Legion Auxiliary Fund wants to thank the people of Sheboygan Falls and the surrounding area for their continued support.
