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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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Caylynn’s Contemplations

Scribbled down on November 9th, 2006 by she
Posted in Popularity Contests, Those Who Volunteered

Caylynn is a military spouse that I’ve become “online acquainted” with through Thursday Thirteen. This week she decided to present “two special Thursday Thirteen lists in Honour of Veterans’ Week (November 5-11) and Remembrance Day (November 11th)“.

Her first list is 13 Conflicts Past and Present in which Canadians Have Served. The second is 13 Ways to Take Part in Veteran’ Week (courtesy of Veteran’s Affairs Canada).

If you do nothing else today, take a few minutes to stop by Caylynn’s blog and read her T13 post.

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Caylynn Says:
November 9th, 2006 at 2:10 pm

Thanks for the mention. 🙂 My list is the very least I could do to help honour all those who have served, past and present. On Remembrance Day this year we are attending a ceremony at one of the Commonwealth War Graves here in Germany to pay our respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

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