"Taken at Red Cliff, Colo headed for the U.S. Training Camp at Lincoln, Neb. 1918" [Title taken from photo caption.] Group standing in front of Adams Express Company. Lloyd Gerard is pictured second from right.

Russell Beck, age 7, showing the poppies he was selling for Armistice/Remembrance/Veterans Day (Nov. 11) in 1939. The red poppy featured in the poem, In Flanders Fields, by Dr. John McCrae. The poppy as a symbol for the bloodshed in World War I was adopted by the National American Legion Conference in 1919 and the American Legion has been selling poppies on Nov. 11 ever since. The photo bears a good example of fingerprint damage on the upper left...