Buddy poppies on sale this weekend
To the Peabody community:
When you are offered the opportunity to donate to the Buddy Poppy program Saturday morning in Peabody, make your donation with a great big smile on your face.
Remember that it is the most appreciated investment your loose change or dollar bills could ever make.
Across America tens of thousands of men and women volunteer to distribute Buddy Poppies and are offering you a once-a-year opportunity to personally thank the servicemen and women who have made the supreme sacrifice, and the countless men and women in hospitals who may never again be physically fit.
Maybe the government does give a few bucks a month to survivors of service personnel and maybe the disabled are given free hospitalization. But the help you give them through the Buddy Poppy campaign conducted by their own organization comes from your heart; not from what you are forced to pay in taxes.
Net proceeds from the distribution of Buddy Poppies are used to meet the call of the needy veterans and their families, either locally or on a national level.
Proceeds also help with operational expense of the VFW National Home at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Built in 1925, the home is for widows and orphans of our veterans and is the only home of its kind in the world.
If your gratitude to our service men and women is more than lip-service, proudly wear your Buddy Poppy when it is offered by the VFW Auxiliary volunteers this Saturday.
Joan Palmer
