Please remember - today is Veteran's Day

percussiondad
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:08 +0000

I was really Proud of my D yesterday morning (she is in the US for college) because the first thing she posted on facebook was that she remembers and she included the last line of in Flanders Fields which is “We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.” When I talked to her last evening she said it was great because for the past 2 weeks she had been wearing her poppie and many people asked what it was for. She said later in the evening her and some of her friends sat and had their own Multinational remembrance service in their dorm and she taught them a song that she said had been on her mind all day. She learnt it in elementary school but it has stuck with her. It is “I remember the brave men who fought for our country, I remember the brave men who died far away, I remember the brave men who truly loved Canada, and because I remember, I stand and I pray.” Lest we forget. And of course you can change the Canada for any country. They have apparently agreed that next year they will plan something in advance and try to get more people involved.