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    Home » Personal

    Thoughts on Remembrance Day ~ November 11

    Published 8 November 2016 by Liz Gardner | Leave a Comment

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    Remembrance Day, on November 11 is a national holiday in many countries throughout the world including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Allied powers. It commemorates the end of fighting between the Allies and Germany and the end of World War 1. The signing of the agreement took place in 1918 in France at the 11th hour of the 11th month. Eleven short years later, in 1939, again the world was at war which lasted until May 8, 1945, the official ending of WWII.  Today, Remembrance Day is a day to remember family, loved ones and the multitudes who have died for their countries since WWI.

    War Memorial, Victoria, BC, Legislative Building
    War Memorial, Victoria, BC, Legislative Building

    For the Fallen

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them.

    From: "For the Fallen" by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)
    Published September 1914

    Poppies ... for remembrance
    Poppies ... for remembrance

    The Story Behind the Remembrance Day Poppy

    "From its association with the poppies flowering in the spring of 1915 on the battlefields of Belgium, France and Gallipoli this vivid red flower has become synonymous with great loss of life in war" and was inspired by Moina Michael "the Poppy lady"

    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.

    by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

    Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium war memorial

    Canadair F-86 MK 5 Sabre
    Canadair F-86 MK 5 Sabre Veterans Hall (302) Sidney, BC

    High Flight

    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
    And  danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumblin' mirth
    Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
    We have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
    I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
    My eager craft through footless halls of air ...

    by John Gillespie Magee RCAF

    Remembrance Day, Cairns, Australia, 2014
    Remembrance Day, Cairns, Australia, 2014

    We have these people who sacrificed their lives to thank for the many freedoms we have today. November 11, Remembrance Day, is a time to remember and be thankful.

    Lest we forget - lest we forget!

    Recessional by Rudyard Kipling (1897)

    Video: The Last Post at the Australian War memorial, Canberra

    War Memorial & Museum, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Australian War Memorial & Museum, Canberra, ACT. Photo courtesy K. Grainger

    Links & References:

    • Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae biography
    • Robert Laurence Binyon biography
    • ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps which originated in WWI
    • We will Remember Them - an article with correspondence between my Dad and his best mate during WWII
    • Anzac Biscuits - the recipe
    In Flanders Fields & Other Poems of WW1
    In Flanders Fields & Other Poems of WWI

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