On Sunday morning outside of the Acme Market on East Bay Avenue in Stafford Township, retired veterans handed out artificial blue forget-me-not flowers to shoppers, collecting funds to benefit the the Disabled American Veterans organization. The flower symbolizes, among other things, respect.

At the Ethel A. Jacobsen and Long Beach Island Grade schools Nov. 11, staff and students celebrated that respect for military men and women who have served and still serve, Superintendent Peter J.