Remembrance Day to me is a day to pay respects to those who have fallen so we can live in peace.
For the past 15 years of my life I was told that remembrance day was about paying respects to the fallen soldiers and every year the assembly has been about this and the poem Flanders field which is an iconic poem written in Belgium by John MaCrae. We have this assembly on the 11th day on the 11th hour of the 11th month because this was when world war one was over and it was supposed to end all wars.
But this assembly has been more about refugees and how they come to this country because of war and poverty but they miss the whole reason why we do this assembly and killed it with facts about refugees and videos of people who came to Canada and there story. I'm not saying it was bad to incorporate this but I didn't like the fact that they scrapped the videos and the poem in Flanders field.
That was my main problem with this years remembrance day assembly If they incorporated the refugees and tied it into what we usually do for remembrance day it would not bother me it would make me happy that we now knowledge other
For the past 15 years of my life I was told that remembrance day was about paying respects to the fallen soldiers and every year the assembly has been about this and the poem Flanders field which is an iconic poem written in Belgium by John MaCrae. We have this assembly on the 11th day on the 11th hour of the 11th month because this was when world war one was over and it was supposed to end all wars.
But this assembly has been more about refugees and how they come to this country because of war and poverty but they miss the whole reason why we do this assembly and killed it with facts about refugees and videos of people who came to Canada and there story. I'm not saying it was bad to incorporate this but I didn't like the fact that they scrapped the videos and the poem in Flanders field.
That was my main problem with this years remembrance day assembly If they incorporated the refugees and tied it into what we usually do for remembrance day it would not bother me it would make me happy that we now knowledge other