Beginning in the late 1980’s and championed by City Councillor and veteran Bill Struck, the City of Cambridge established a street naming policy asking developers to select 50 per cent of the names for their new streets from the Veterans List maintained by the Cambridge Archives and Records Centre. Further research in 2002 by local historian Gerry Love and aided by Nancy Morrey added more names to the list. The Vet’s list now has more than 5,000 veterans and there are over 130 "Poppy Streets" in the city. The Vet's list includes veterans of the First World War, Second World War and Korea. Gerry Love heard that Nancy wrote war poetry and had an interest in military history. Upon their meeting Gerry told her that he was researching the backgrounds of the veterans who had poppy streets named after them.
