| Remembrance Day
Posted: 11/12/2007 8:30:27 AM | I tend to feel that Remembrance Day is a day that is slowing having less and less meaning for people. I think that's sad. As a leader in Guiding I have an opportunity to encourage "remembrance" and I use it.. I also purchased and wore my poppy for the past two weeks and I usually attend some Remembrance ceremony.
Yesterday I also changed my main photo to be one for Remembrance Day. A picture for which I have a license no less. Someone must have complained because this morning I find it was deleted. Oh brother!
Did you "Remember"? What did you do?
LEST WE FORGET.
B. | |
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| Remembrance Day
Posted: 11/12/2007 8:52:12 AM | | I was on a river yesterday tossing my feathered pieces of art around along with some of the best views in the world surrounding me. I made a point of taking a good sit at 11 and thinking how lucky I was to be where I was, doing what I was doing. And then I thanked those that I never knew, along with their families for the sacrafices they made so that people like me could live the life I do. We should never forget. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 8:55:30 AM | I was never a flag waver or a man who cries easily, but we visited Parliament Hill in Ottawa when my son was a toddler, including the War Memorial and the Peace Tower. With him in my arms, I read page after page of names of men and women who gave their lives. And my kid grows up in safety, security, and intellectual freedom, and hopefully will not ever have to go to war himself. Being a parent, and that visit to Ottawa, changed the way I feel about being Canadian. Thanks for the thread, Bonnie. | |
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| Remembrance Day
Posted: 11/12/2007 9:05:34 AM |
I tend to feel that Remembrance Day is a day that is slowing having less and less meaning for people.
Guess you dont have a TV and were not able to watch the news. As usual there were hundreds of thousands of people around the country at the various Cenotaphs.
Maybe you feel guilty for not going. They also mentioned how there are more younger people than ever attending. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 9:35:40 AM | I have always been impressed at how many more younger people attend the memorial services each year, regardless of the weather. My stepfather was in the airforce so I heard first hand about the deaths and damage.
Every year I purchase my poppy - lose it; purchase another and lose it but still keep buying them. Even if it only serves as a reminder to those who haven't contributed, that others do acknowledge the importance of the occasion and why.
Ohdriver, what an impact that must have made on you.
Friends of mine arranged for me to attend a play called "A Soldier's Heart" last night and we chose the last day to attend it. Unfortunately the last performance was at 2pm so we did not get to see it. We arrived in time to see them emptying the theatre, especially since they held the matinee show 10 minutes because the tickets were reserved and the director was expecting us. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 9:41:11 AM | I spent a few hours putting a video together for the special day. It's just my way of giving thanks to those that came before me, and allowing me to grow up free.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vH4kdFUYZKA
It may not be much, but it was what I had to give. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 10:39:05 AM | I do not need a poppy or Remembrance Day to be reminded…..
It was 40 years ago this week when our family received the tragic news …… our dad’s plane had been shot down by submarines and he and his crew would never come home.
I have stood in the rain many a November 11th, tears streaming down my cheeks, not just for the loss of my own Dad…but for the many men and women that have gave their lives for our freedom and the many amongst us that would feel the same pain of loss.
I am proud to be Canadian ~ | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 10:50:04 AM | I just signed up for the Tank Corps. Watch out! I will crush them all!  | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 10:53:16 AM | I was here at Cambie during the Rememberance Service by myself. It was beautiful...at least what I coudl here, because I'm short and I was on the downhill so I couldn't see anything : (
The choir was beautiful..... I lost my brother in Afghanistan so it was really touching for me. It was so nice to see everyone, and see so many people walk around with poppies.
It was really touching, we are so lucky to be in this big beautiful country. Much love to all of our military men and women, and all the people in our service that protect us daily. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 11:03:27 AM | Thanks Bonny
I don't need either remembrance day or poppy to be reminded...
I can still see and smell the blood those 18 to 25 year old men lost for some senseless political ill will.
 'yall | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 11:29:09 AM | | I am retired from the military. Remembrance day is a time for me to reflect on comrades that are no longer with me, lost too young; of times in foriegn lands with people of different cultures struggling; time to revisit my relatives graves that were lost in the wars. While I don't attend a cenotaph for an "official" ceremony ( it tends to drudge up memories better left in the darker recesses of my mind) I do visit my local veterns cemetary. I don't need to look at the calendar to know it is November 11th, Remembrance day to me reoccurs on several days through the year. Dates on which I lost friends, or saw the horrors that can take place first hand. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 11:30:10 AM | | Unfortunately there are still people around who don't realize that the freedom they have is because of the men and women who so willing too give their lives for the democracy and freedom of speech we all enjoy around the world.CL | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 12:51:43 PM | This is the first year that we didn't make it out to the services and I felt horrible for that. I have family members and friends who serve/d in the forces so it hits close to home. My children always attend with me and my Mum. Mum has had some health issues so we chose to watch the Victoria services on TV instead. I too have heard that the numbers of youngsters attending are increasing ,... this is a great thing.
~ We WILL remember them~
Gordasitgets ~ you never cease to amaze me. Well done. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 1:08:38 PM | Oh I think as more and more young lives are lost in the middle east we have opened up the poignant import of remembrance to the new generations.
I developed a whole new respect for our service men and women and the pride they feel in their roles when my son joined the forces. I am relieved that he is no longer serving (a mother's prerogative) however, I do stand in total reverence for all of those that have and continue to serve our country. Without them we would not enjoy the freedoms we do (just look around the rest of the globe if you doubt that).
I am a mother who saw her son return from Afghanistan, I cannot express how much my heart feels for all the families who are not so fortunate to say the same.
To steal a comment from my son:
"If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them" | |
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Posted: 11/12/2007 2:16:58 PM | Thanks for sharing with us those beautiful words TheMaven.
To steal a comment from my son:
"If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them" | |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 6:54:47 AM | My grandfather fought in WWII, on and Aircraft carrier - engine room. He made it home from the war and was killed in a head on collision with a logging truck on Valentine's Day in 1991. He was on his way to his brother's funeral in Revelstoke. My grand uncle who never fought in the war died 8 years ago, complications of surgery. His birthday was November 11, 1917.
My brother died of a cocaine overdose on November 11, 1993, he was 31 years old.
I have three poppies that I have had for years in the visor of my car. Remembrance Day has many meanings for me....how did I spend it? Silence at 11/11/11:00, listened to the broadcast on the radio and remembered the times I had with all of them.
What did I think about on 11/11. That I am grateful that I knew all of them and sad that so many others lost their family members in the war and didn't have the opportunity to create those memories we all cherish... | |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 8:53:30 AM | | i went looking for a parade with my daughter ,,Abbotsford ?no luck .. mission ?nope ..no parade this year ...are the veterans all getting to old ?aren't the schools joining in anymore ?have we all forgot ? | |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 4:17:54 PM | SAD! Very SAD!
Nov.11,2007,was shaping up to be a discouraging day for veterans.With polls showing Canadians are tuning out Rememberance Day came news that a supervisor at Home Depot in Windsor,Ont.,ejected two woman distributting poppies for the Royal Canadian Legion.Even the Canadian Football Leaque (normaly attentive to such occasions) scheduled a Sunday game in conflict with a local ceremonies.Fortunatly,the negligent perties have come to their senses: the kickoff's been pushed back,and the Home Depot welcomed back the legionnaires.
We might be forgetting what it means to honour war dead,but I hope, that at least we still have the decency to remember what's right... | |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 8:45:15 PM | Nope, people havn't forgotten. Taken from bclocalnews.com
Branch 15 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Abbotsford will on Sunday host a Remembrance Day Ceremony at Thunderbird Memorial Square.
The parade will begin at W.J. Mouat secondary, proceeding south on Trethewey and will enter Thunderbird Memorial Square via Veterans Way. A minimal traffic disruption on Trethewey is expected between 10:15 and 11 a.m.
The ceremony begins at about 10:45 a.m.. Spectators are urged to arrive by 10:30 a.m. to find seating.
Mission’s Service of Remembrance will be held Sunday at the Clarke Theatre at 10:40 a.m., with Last Post played at 11 a.m.
A parade will assemble at the Old Windebank School on Stave Lake Street at 10 a.m., at at 10:15 a.m. will march to the theatre.
Following the ceremony there will be a wreath laying ceremony at the Legion, and a social gathering for members and guests.
I had no problem finding my local cenotaph, parade and ceremony. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 4:46:34 PM | | well i was at the mission legion and asked if anyone new of any parade before i went home ..at 11,,there was a moment of silence ...I saw a few others there but no one new what was going on..there was a tent set up . | |
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