In 1971, a child of twelve was having a discussion with her mother who was very ill and near death. Her mother, who was a veteran, stroked the child’s head and asked her not to cry and to try not to forget her on Armistice Day. Through her tears she looked into her mother’s eyes and nodded, not even understanding what was meant by the word Armistice. Never missing a year since the passing of her mother, she has gone to the gravesite to lay a poppy on Remembrance Day, first alone, then with her husband and finally, as soon as they could walk, her two daughters. They would pause at the cenotaph and look out at all the headstones that lay in the Field of Honour in Beechmount Cemetery in Edmonton. Her two little girls would ask, “Why don’t the others receive a poppy?†Maureen Bianchini Purvis is this months Global Woman of Vision. Watch her story Monday November 3rd in the News Hour at 6pm.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:18:03 +0000
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