BUDDY ® POPPY/ NATIONAL HOME

Buddy Poppy & National Home — VFW Auxiliary

VFW Auxiliary · Buddy Poppy & National Home

Honoring Veterans. Supporting Families.

The VFW Auxiliary works to honor and make a difference in the lives of veterans, service members, and their families. Two ways we do this are through the VFW "Buddy”® Poppy Program and the VFW National Home.

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Why it matters

Impact in action
 
The "Buddy”® Poppy & VFW National Home Program

Promotes and supports the VFW "Buddy”® Poppy Program and the VFW National Home—helping honor service, provide support, and offer a fresh start for military and veteran families.

Program highlights

At a glance
  • Nationwide Poppy distribution
    The VFW conducted its first Poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922—becoming the first veterans’ organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The Poppy program also partially supports the VFW National Home.
  • Promotes and supports the VFW National Home
    For more than 90 years, the National Home has helped military and veteran families who need a fresh start.
  • Promotes the National Home Helpline
    A free service that helps callers with pressing needs nationwide seek solutions in their own communities.
Your support helps provide stability, services, and hope for military and veteran families.

National Home Helpline

First step to help

The National Home Helpline is the first step on the path to help for military and veteran families. This free service helps callers with pressing needs nationwide seek solutions in their own communities.

Hours

Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern (except holidays). Messages left after hours and on weekends are answered the next business day.

  • Phone
    800.313.4200
  • Email
    help@vfwnationalhome.org

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae
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.
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