07-11-2017 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com

No Stone Left Alone: students lay poppies at cemetery

As Ryan Jaworsky stood before a soldier’s gravestone at Beechmount Cemetery before placing a poppy upon it, he couldn’t help but wonder about the life the soldier lived and the price that was paid for his own freedom.
“It’s a lot more surreal to be in front of the graves of people who have died for your country than to just be in the classroom and learning about it from a book,” said Jaworsky, a Grade 9 student from Riverbend Junior High School, one of hundreds of s
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