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At your Fingertips

• Keeping Track of Time

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• Poppy Count

  Poppy count charitable donation grand plan

  Each year since returning to Canada full-time in 2007, I have counted the poppies I see people wearing from the day the poppy campaign begins until 11am on November 11th. I'd tally up the count, donate 0.10$ per poppy, and send a cheque to a local veterans organization.

  It used to be a sizeable donation.

  In recent years, I've noticed my poppy count decreasing. I worry sometimes that people have begun to forget the past. I worry that we will soon relive their horrors in our future.

  I don't base my donation on poppy counts anymore. And I no longer wait until Remembrance Day arrives to make them.

  I am changing too. Hopefully, for the better.

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