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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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And then there were none

Scribbled down on February 19th, 2010 by she
Posted in Those Who Volunteered

WW1 has officially passed from commemoration into history, in Canada.

John “Jack” Babcock, Canada’s last known First World War veteran, has died at the age of 109. Rest in peace, John Babcock, and the 600,000 other Canadian men and women who served in the First World War.

At the going down of the sun, we will remember them.

More info: CBC News – Canada – Canada’s last WW I veteran dies

*some text shamelessly stolen from my friend Mare‘s FB status.

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mare Says:
March 12th, 2010 at 8:53 pm

BWA HA HA I thought this was sounding familiar and then I read the last line.

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