A lot of you people out there have decided not to wear poppies anymore.

Not Don Cherry , though: He’s still wearing his poppy for 11 days in November — until Remembrance Day on Tuesday.

And, six years to the day, he was fired for his position that wearing a poppy was the “least” people could do. He still is respectfully pushing for people to do the same.

“I always remind people to get a poppy,” said Grapes in an interview Monday. “But I notice when I am out, that very few people have a poppy.”

Something is different now. Even in some court houses, judges are ruling that the poppy is political and they won’t let staff wear them. It’s madness and insulting.

“It does hurt,” Cherry admits, adding he realizes “Canada has changed.”

Changed from when he was a kid growing up in Kingston

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