The annual Poppy Campaign runs through Remembrance Day , November 11. The Royal Canadian Legion asks all Canadians to wear a poppy to acknowledge the deaths of the 116,000 Canadians who fought in wars this century. AU purchasing administrator John Poynter is the 1st VP of the Alberta-NWT Command of the Royal Canadian Legion. We are asking all Canadians, who can safely, to stop what they are doing on November 11th at 11 o'clock and stand in silence for two minutes in honour of those who paid the supreme sacrifice for us. Athabasca University is closed Remembrance Day.
Poppy donations go into trust funds to help needy veterans and their families throughout the year.
Poppies only flower in rooted up soil. Their seeds can lie on the ground for years and years, and will only sprout when someone roots up the ground. Almost the entire Western Front consisted of churned up soil. His poem remains one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.