Chaplain Eddie Brown (left) of the American Legion Department of Michigan leads the World War I commemoration ceremony in a word of prayer on Nov. 8, 2018, in the Michigan State Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Michigan. The Blue Star Mothers in attendance had just placed their red poppies on the chair beside him, flowers which symbolize the poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers during WWI.

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