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and espionage paraphernalia when they broke up the ring. His name Rudolf Ivanovich Abel. On October 25, 1957, a jury found Abel guilty of espionage.

The postscript to the hollow Nickel Spy Coin story is that Col. Rudolf Abel was exchanged for the Soviets for American spy U-2 Pilot Frances Gary Powers on February 10, 1962, on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge.

Meanwhile, for those not old enough to recall: the red poppy's origin as a remembrance of military dead is associated with the most popular poem of the World War I era: "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.

The poem was translated into many languages and used on billboards advertising the sale of the first Victory Loan Bonds in Canada in 1917. Designed to raise $150,000,000, the campaign raised $400,000,000.

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