A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, the saying goes.
There is another flower for which there are a hundred thousand names called to mind
yet it has no scent at all.
There is another flower for which there are a hundred thousand names called to mind
yet it has no scent at all.
Our Vimy Poppy
Tucked away in a fragile old scrapbook to tumble out while we prepared our Great War centennial exhibit, was a poppy. The poppy had been picked in the battlefield at Vimy Ridge by Sgt. John Harold Becker (banner above) in memory of his comrades lost a few months earlier at that famous battle in April 1917. Comrades that included Lance Corporal Ellis W. Sifton, who won the Victoria Cross on the first day of the battle. Our Vimy Poppy is sacred to their memory and symbolic of all those who served Canada in troubling times. Lest We Forget.
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