Lest We Forget the Poppy
A new episode of The Adventures of PK Boy!
On a crisp November sidewalk, the cape-wearing Preacher’s Kid spots a member of the local Legion selling poppies and decides the whole thing needs correcting. As a well-intentioned, peace-nik style Christian boy, PK Boy is certain that real followers of the Prince of Peace never fight, never stand, and never pin red paper flowers that “glorify war.”
While he lectures about peacemaking and turning the other cheek, the laid-back Dude quietly buys a poppy, pins it on, and tells the plain story of the ordinary Canadian sons who left the prairies, the shops, and the classrooms to stand against a darkness that was already swallowing Europe.
In just a few minutes, PK Boy learns that honouring veterans is not celebrating violence. It is remembering the costly price of the freedom we still hold. Sometimes a call is made to fight tyranny so the rest of us can still have quiet mornings. And the poppy is simply a small, red refusal to forget.
This episode is built on the Word piece We Will Remember Them and points to both the sacrifice of Canada’s sons in the Second World War and the greater sacrifice of Christ (Romans 5:8; John 15:13).
We will remember them.
And we will remember Him.
Listen to Episode 3: Lest We Forget the Poppy
From the producers of The Adventures of PK Boy!: thank you to every Canadian veteran, especially those who served in the Second World War and the ones still with us. You stood when the darkness was real. We honour you.
