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NOVEMBER 19 2O15 • UWINDSORLANCE.CA
Hundreds Drawn to University’s Remembrance Day Commemoration HANIYASSINE Arts Editor __________________________ How do you remember on a day like today? It’s a question, which can yield a variety of answers, all while essentially leading to the same idea. “I remember by coming to ceremonies like this,” said second year law student Sarah Strasler. “It’s good to all be together and share in the memory, and I think the ultimate sacrifice somebody could make for another is to lay down their life for them.” Every year on Nov. 11, at roughly 11 a.m, people come together to share recognition of Remembrance Day. In the case of Memorial Hall, students, faculty and staff alike came to pay their respects to those who’ve fallen in the great wars of the modern age, as well as those who continue to partake in current conflicts. Through choir performances of “O Canada,” the reading of “In Flanders Fields” and moments of silence, people across the country take the time to acknowledge the brave acts of the men and women in arms. “Eighty-seven years since the end of the first great war, we’re here to remember the ultimate sacrifices of men and women, both visible and hidden that change a life,” said UWindsor president Alan Wildeman during his commemoration speech. The Memorial Hall ceremony honored the over 160 Assumption College students and faculty who gave their lives fighting in World War II. The ceremo-
A woman holding a miniature Canadian flag partakes in the Remembrance Day Commemoration at Memorial Hall Nov. 11. [Photo by // Hani Yassine] ny also shed light on the likes of Arthur Bryan Morlidge from Saskatchewan, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 419th squadron, who was shot and killed in October 1942. Diaries and letters were read throughout the
ceremony as many had Canadian flags at hand and poppies worn on their person. Certain annual commemorations and traditions may prove to be tiring for some. But with Remembrance Day, there’s a sense of a universal level of re-
Dramatic art professor Lionel Walsh speaks at the Rememberance Day commemoration at Memorial Hall Nov. 11. [Photo by // Hani Yassine]
spect, as the sacrifices made warrant this much at the very least. “I remember the people I served with, a number of whom actually fought in the Second World War,” said Walter Soder-
lund, a retired UWindsor politics professor who served in the U.S. Air Force for five years. “When things got nasty, people stood up and did what they had to do, and some paid a price immediately.”
Those who attended the Rememberance Day commemoration placed Canadian flags on the field of Memorial Hall Nov. 11. [Photo by // Hani Yassine]