It's one of those cases when a photo tells the story better than words.
The students at made more than 1,000 poppies -- double the number from last year -- and displayed them in front of the building as a tribute to fallen U.S. soldiers this Memorial Day.
Kerstin Fairbend, the mother of one of the students, scored this pic and shared it with Stratford Patch. If you're doing something special to honor soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice, take a pic and share it with the community by uploading it to this gallery.
Bob E. Peel
of support for Veterans. As I child, I shook cans for donations and gave paper poppies so that my father & fellow vets could buy & plant flags at cemeteries and give some things to veterans in hospitals. The poppies were reflective to massive losses in WW I and poem 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.