Remembrance Day 2019

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2019

Friday, November 8, 2019

Honoring our veterans

Each year, on November 11, a Remembrance Day Service is held in Carlyle at the Elementary School Gym. (Archive photos)

What does Remembrance Day Mean to you?

Submitted by Doug Waldner That is a question that can be asked in many ways to many people. It is asked to students to inspire artwork and essays. It is a question we should all ask ourselves. Is it just another day off work? Is it a day to spend with family? Is it a day that you can sleep in?

Remembrance Day is celebrated on November 11, because the cease �ire that ended the First World War, the “War to End All Wars”, came into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Private George Lawrence Price was was a Canadian soldier who was shot by a Geman sniper and died at 10:58 on November 11 1918, and is recognized as the last of the

approximately 61,000 Canadian military personnel who died in that war. Can we imagine what Remembrance Day meant to the loved ones of Private Price, or the sons, daughters, wives, husbands, fathers, mothers or other beloved members of the families of the 61,000 others who sacri�iced their lives in that war.

Or what Remembrance Day meant to the family members and loved ones of the 42.000 Canadians killed in World War 2, or to the 516 Canadians killed in the Korean war, or the 56 Canadians killed in the Viet Nam War, or the 159 Canadians killed in the Afganistan mission, or the 130 Canadians who were killed in Peace Keeping missions, or any deaths that occured

Established in 1909, the Last Post Fund is a nonpro�it organization whose mission is to ensure that no Veteran is denied a digni�ied funeral and burial, as well as a military gravestone, due to insuf�icient funds at time of death.

Since inception the Last Post Fund has arranged for the funeral and burial of more than 150,000 �inancially challenged Veterans.

Under the Last Post Fund Indigenous Veterans Initiative we will also provide qualifying Indigenous Veterans with a military marker and a traditional name inscription.

Help us honour our Canadian Indigenous Veterans. If you know of a veteran gravesite in need of a

headstone or a Veteran in need of funeral assistance, or if you are interested in helping to identify unmarked Indigenous Veterans graves in your community, contact us at: Last Post Fund 401-505 Rene-Levesque W Montreal, QC, H2Z 1Y7 Toll Free: 1 (800) 465-7113 Ext 222 info@lastpost.ca www.lastpost.ca

The Last Post Fund

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in training, or other, not as well recognized, missions.

Private George Price has been recognized because his death seemed somehow more tragic because his death came only minutes before the cease �ire, but to family and friends, each and every one of the 103,861 deaths mentioned was equally as tragic and devastating.

I have never lost anyone to war, but I do remember my mother crying,eveery year, as she watched Remembrance Day ceeremonies, and remembered the friends of her youth who are buried in foreign lands.

Remembrance Day was very powerful monent each year in my mother’s life.

What does Remembrance Day mean to those who were injured or maimed in their service, or their friends and family? Those whose service cost them their health and wellness had to, and have to, live with the consequences of those injuries. Their families and communities also have to cope with the consequences of that service and those injuries.

The devastation of war and the consequences of deaths and injuries are something we, in Canada, can all relate to in our own way. I recently heard a singer discuss her youth in Holland. Although she was born after World War 2, she was raised with the knowledge that her land was freed from Nazi occupation by Canadian soldiers. She mentioned how her grandparents had been in the Underground and helped Allied soldiers. Remembrance Day has an entirely different meaning for her, a child of a country that was occupied, than we in Canada can hope to imagine.

Consider what Remembrance Day means to you, wear a poppy, and on this November 11 please attend a Remembrance Day Ceremony.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2019

How and why we celebrate Remembrance Day REMEMBRANCE DAY IN CANADA Remembrance Day is celebrated annually on November 11 to honour the contributions of all military service members who gave their lives defending our nation. Similar commemorative events, such as Decoration Day in June and Paardeberg Day in February, were held before World War I. However, the scale of the Great War and the extensive human cost incurred by the con�lict led to the adoption of a single celebration.

Canada’s armed forces have since been involved in a number of con�licts, including World War II, the Korean War, the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan, as well as a long list of peacekeeping operations across the globe.

Veterans of these wars are likewise honoured on Remembrance Day. HOW TO CELEBRATE REMEMBRANCE DAY Here are some ideas for honouring our veterans and their bravery:

Remembrance Day has been recognized in Canada since 1931. However, the occasion was initially known as Armistice Day, and was exclusively a celebration of the end of World War I. Here’s what Remembrance Day is all about today and how you can celebrate it.

A Valuable Gift Submitted by Linda Aalbers What is the most valuable gift you have in your life, your family; have you shared the most valuable gift that allows you with your loved ones, the reason for the life we experience today.

Think of all those families that sent their loved ones off to the World War, �irst the 1st World War when the early settlers in this country sent off their young men to �ight for the countries, many had left 20 years or less to come to a better land, many of those families lost loved ones. Then, not so many years later, the 2nd World War hit the homelands of many that came to Canada after the 1st World War and the suffering endured by many at that time.

This November 11th, if you have not explained to your family that Canada paid a heavy toll on families during the last war, the men and women who fought for our freedom.

I have heard the stories from families in Europe of the hardships - I heard them here in Canada. Until you have seen �irst hand the ravages of war or seen in other countries, especially the communist countries. What people have feared or have NOT feared, what here in Canada is available to those who strive to earn a good life.

I visited 12 families in another country and to see the smiles for the things we take for granted. Salt – what I was taught was the bread of life. They do not have, it is like giving candy to a child. They cannot get it; a candle – the sparkle in the grandmother’s eyes made my eyes tear, when the power goes out, there is not generator or �lashlight.

We are blessed in this country and we need to realize that we live so close to Military installations. The missile site location just south of the border, between ourselves and the neighbours we live close to, then many have ever thought of.

Those that travel south know this, as we as Canadian patriots need to teach our families that freedom is the rights we take for granted. Three meals a day, new shoes, a warm bed, a church of our choice, friends, a cup of coffee. The pleasures of music, television, candy, holidays we have this Why? Those who fought for us and their descendants. A land of plenty – it is ours because of those who loved it too.

A lady in another country, said to me last March, “Linda, “Nothing, nothing we do changes, it just stays the same,” quote of dear friend Lillian, 2019 Cuba.

“Let Us Remember” the price they paid for us all.

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• Wear the poppy over your heart • Observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on November 11 • Attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in your region • Speak with veterans, or listen to interviews with them • Learn more about Canada’s memorial monuments • Visit a war museum or memorial in your region • Learn more about Canada’s involvement in a con�lict, peacekeeping mission or humanitarian effort To learn more about Remembrance Day visit www.veterans.gc.ca.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Their Country Needed Them, They Answered the Call.

Remember Them.

We Shall Not Forget.

Dr. Robert Kitchen, MP Souris-Moose Mountain 1-866-249-4697

www.drrobertkitchen.ca

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