For 15 years, the No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation has worked to teach students the importance of remembering and honouring Canada’s soldiers.

Randall Purvis, Vice Chair of the Foundation, shares its purpose here.

“Our mission, if you will, our youth honouring Canadian veterans and serving members through personal acts of remembrance, solitude and citizenship every year forever.”

Teachers introduce their students to the program in the classroom, and then they visit memorial cemeteries where veterans are buried.

During ceremonies, the students are asked to place a poppy at the grave site, say the veteran’s name and their rank aloud, and then say “thank you.”

Since 2011, over 700-thousand poppies have been placed by students and in 2024, almost 90-thousand students participated in this hands-on act of remembrance.

Learn more about the No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation. Tune in to Thompson Today this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10.