Why do veterans sell small red poppies on veterans day?

The poppies represent the real red flowers which grew in the fields of France and Belgium where a lot of soldiers died during the First World War.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.