Why We Remember by Jacob Medley
We remember our fallen soldiers, because if we forget them it would be like nothing happened, and we have to appreciate the freedom we have which they sacrificed their lives for.
We remember the young boys who were just a few years older then myself who risked their lives to give you and I freedom. They fought to keep peace in the world. For if our soldiers didn’t fight the Axis Power’s they would have taken over and that would be very bad.
We remember because young people left their home’s and never came back. They had to watch their own friends die terrible deaths. Some lost their arms and or legs, also a lot of them lost their eye sight, their hearing and their state of mind. Some were burned terribly on all parts of their bodies.
We also have to remember the soldiers who were captured by the enemy and tortured and kept in prisoner of war camps only to die slow deaths of starvation and disease.
We remember because it would be a waste of these people’s lives if we forgot about the First and Second World War soldiers.
If you asked me, I think it’s a shame to throw young people into uniform and send them to their death.
I think it’s a cruel thing to take another persons life, not only for that person, but for the family waiting in agony for their son to come home unharmed.
So that’s why we need to remember for if we didn’t it would have all been for nothing.
Why is it important to remember? by Megan Smith
Have you ever stopped to think about why it is important to remember? Or even why we remember? What do we remember? Well if you don’t, today you will. To start off, do you even know what it would feel like to be a young boy with no other option but to be sent to war. Knowing your life would be on high risk? Well lit wouldn’t be that great, in fact it would be terrible, and not just for you but for your family especially your mother and father. Can you imagine what it would feel like to be a mother and to have someone take away your son to the great war knowing you may lose him forever or to never see him again? It would be heart breaking. But that’s not the point, the point is that all those young boys and men that had to go to war were fighting for freedom for their country and homes.
Those young boys had courage, they where brave and strong. When they had to watch so many die they wanted to go home to their loved one’s more and more each day but they knew they had no choice but to stay at war. They had to stay to fight for their country just hoping that their lives where not next to be lost. But it was not only men who attended the great war there where also some women who had just as much bravery and courage and they where just as strong. Those men and women had the bravery to run up a beach knowing war was ahead of them but we all know that today us kids would all be running the other way. Most of the time they all had to be in a trench fighting and making explosions, having the thoughts in your head of all the lives that were being lost. Listening to the sounds of gunshots and explosions. The sight of all the men and women being injured and the sight of death. They did not like it nobody would, but they could not stop it from happening, so they were fighting till the end. Now all the body’s of all the long lost soldiers who fought to the death for their countries freedom now lay in Flanders Field. There is a poem by John McCrae called In Flanders Fields it was set to music by another Canadian Craig Cassilis.
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
Scare heard amid the guns below
We are the dead, short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved
And now we lie in Flander’s Fields
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from falling hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flander’s Field.
To me that is a serious poem, written about peace and remembrance and on November 11th I think we all should wear a poppy as a symbol of peace and remembrance, as well as our thanks.
Lest We Forget by Karly Longridge
Just think, having bombs going off in a distance, always being on watch, never having the feeling of comfort. Do you think that anyone would ever want to live a horrifying experience like that? I think that would be terrible to not be safe from the guns and explosions.
There is only one World War I veteran still alive that fought to protect our country and to keep our freedom, he is a Canadian by the name of John Henry Foster Babcock, he is 109 years old and he has had an amazing life. He was not forced to leave his family and join the war like many of the others were, he chose to fight. He was very brave and courageous to go out there and risk his life for the many people in Canada that are thankful that our country is safe.
I have some relatives who were part of World War I and II. My great great uncle Albert Nobbs and three of his brothers Jim, Ted and Lew fought in World War I and survived. My great grandpa Cecil Carley was a dentist in World War IL My great aunt Rose served in World War H and that is where she met her husband, they got married at the end of the war and had six children. My great aunt Reta was a nurse in World War II, her first husband was a pilot who was killed during the war, if I could ever talk to her again I would not know how to thank her for saving so many lives.
Please take a moment on November 11th to remember all of these soldiers that have fought for our country so we don’t have to live the life of bombs exploding around us and guns shooting everywhere we go. Be thankful for the peaceful life that we live in Canada.
When will the Sunrise of Peace Come by Kailen Armstrong
As the sunsets on the 730 days at war the soldiers all cry out “When will the sunrise of peace come when will the sound of guns stop for good when will the motion in our stomachs stop that you can die any minute when will the smell of blood go away? When will the fighting for peace stop when will we see our loved ones again? When will we stop breathing gasses that could make us die? When will the German surrender for the last time when will we stop sacrificing our lives? When will the pain go away when will we stop seeing our friends die? When can I go to sleep without waking up dead? When can I stop shooting people? When can we stop getting sick and die? When will there be no booms, no guns, no starvation? When can we go home when can we sleep with no dreams? When will my wife get the telegram that I am dead? When will the battle be over for good? When can I see my little girl grow up when can I see her get married? When will we stop seeing people get buried in Flounders Fields? When will we be saved from the sorrow when will we get help from the medics. When will we run out of bombs when will we lose? When will we fight for our rights for us and our countries?
When will the sunrise of peace come?
Why I Remember by Ian Macey
This is why I remember. Not just because the soldiers shot guns that's not it. It's because they are brave enough to have to go to war.
The fear of dying at any moment is brave and killing people no matter how bad they don't want to because they know they are going to get killed themselves. They know that one family is going to be missing a family member. Son mom or dad anything it's sad. Thinking of their own sons daughters and moms or dads. Never seeing your family again. The bombs going off every two seconds wondering if your friend or family member died or is dying in the field and you can do nothing about it.
How do you thank the medics who watch so many die? The blood all over the place the irony color of it the pain of it. Knowing you were lucky enough to live though it when others paid the same price and will never will be known the one who were not as lucky the ones who survived. Can you think about one day you are playing with your friend the next day you're in a uniform fighting for your country and watching your friends dying? The crying the suffering of them the pain if they survive the memories
This is why I remember because of all the children that died all the medics that watch so many die all the soldier that paid a price. That's why I remember.
Remember the soldiers by Kayne LaRose
Rememberance Day, the day we give our gratitude for the soldiers that died in the battlefield. It was not easy to fight for your country. Over one million of our countries greatest soldiers died for our freedom. Do you really think Rememberance Day is just a day off school like any other holiday? I hope you don't. Rememberance Day is the special day of the year that we gather around to settle our beliefs, our deepest thoughts, and our gratitude. Soldiers in their uniforms fight and fight knowing to die, but only die for knowing that they faught
for their and our country! You may think they should we care?" People, kids, you should care because without the people who protected us. we could be dead like all those grateful soldiers. We had people young die because they were forced to fight for their country. 13-16 year olds had to fight in the battle zone of agonizing disruption and explosions because they had too! Every year on Remembrance Day we pray and thank for all the soldiers long gone in Flanders Field. We wear the Crimson Red Poppy in sign of respect of those who rested in peace. I feel thankful, you feel thankful, Canada was thankful for the peace every soldier has created by sacrificing themselves for our happiness. Hopefully, this tremendous war of violence of some silly incidents will not start this insanity ever again. would you like to have the Atomic Bomb kill over millions of people again? I think not. we thank and bless our wishes to them for the guts they had to fight for something so scary. The songs we sing, the pray we give, the courage we honor, to the ones who slumber. R.I.P. Protectors of our land. God bless the world that this traumatizing event will never occur in our lifetime. God Bless Canada!
Never Forget by Casey Heyd
Left,right,left,right,left,right are the sounds I hear patting against the rained on, snowed on, died on, mud, dry ground. All we do on this gloomy day is sit in an echoing room full of people of all ages, sing some songs, recite some poems, listen to elders speak of there enduring past, coughs in the distance, staring around at an empty room. Sure we wear crimson red poppies but does that really prove our thanks? On this day we should remember the thousands, no millions, that gave their fives for us through all the years of fighting. I know you've all heard this speech before, but do you all really care? You try to show that you care, but you may not really care. Maybe just in your brain, but not in your heart or your soul. That's why I’m going to tell you my way! You may not care you may not listen, but someone out there will.
Think for a moment of our life now, and our fife one hundred years ago. And because of these soldiers this things do not occur any more. These soldiers have dedicated their lives to us and our country for a better future.
Think of Afghanistan and countries in Africa that's people are dying from AIDs and other diseases because there are no health units around them. Or others die from living under the poverty fine. that's why we are so so lucky to five in this great country that are veterans have given us, and that's why we should never forget.
Remembrance by David Schneider
Why to we remember? I’m not sure , but I’m going to find out.
I'm going on a trip starting in 1914. Yes, I'm going back to when WWI started. To try and find out why we remember?
The war started in 1914 when Germany declared war on France. But the only way to get to France was to go through a small country called Belgium which the English and Canada had ties to. England and Canada did not want the Germans to hurt their Belgium friends so that's how WWI got started. But why do we remember? Let go to the end of WWI to find out. By the end, it had turned from being a war that both sides thought that they could win easily into a catastrophe. More than 15 million solders died in the horrible Great War. During that war science moved forward a lot. We had developed new weapons to slaughter people in the millions. Sadly after the war it was not clear what we had been fighting about. After that war people started a thing called Remembrance Day. It commemorated the end of the Great War — "the war to end all wars". One of the reasons we remember is so this horrible thing called war can never happen again. I think I'm starting to understand why we remember.
Sadly that was not the case and another war started. That war was called WW2. Just 21 years after a horrible war another war started up.WW2 started when two men named Adolf Hitler and Mussolini basically tried to take over the world. They got close to doing so. Too close. By 1940 they had taken all of northern Europe, France, most of North Africa, and were pushing into Russia. When Hitler had taken France, he knew he needed England, so he started something called the English blitzes. They nearly bombed London to the ground. Later in the war, the Japanese joined Hitler's side and it looked like we were going to surely lose. But in 1942 the U.S.A joined our side.Finally after months of planning the Allies made up their mind that they were going to make a sea assault. It was called D day. We hit the beaches of France on June 6, 1944. Every man that was on that beach and all those who had fought in WWII and WWI showed tremendous courage. One year later the war was over, we had won, but not without horrific loses.
I think I know why we remember now. It is to honour the dead who gave their lives for our freedom and to try and prevent appalling wars like these two wars from ever happening again.
The Faith by Chicago Bains
Ten thousand young men walk through the fields of death. Two countries meet at the middle as they lay in wet, muddy ,filthy trenches. I smell fear and blood, I see courage with in all of the young men. As the two countries fight to victory thousands and thousands of young men don't make it to see another day in this dreadfull war. Instead they lay in Flanders Fields with white crosses row on row on row.
This time comes every year on November 11th, and this is how we show our love and greatness to all those who fought for our freedom. Wearing a simple emblem a red poppy above our heart, we salute the memory of those who sacrificed their lifes for us. So if they had not done all of this for us, well just think... we would have not been here right now, we might of been laying in Flanders Field with all of the other young men and women. Just doing that one simple thing shows that we still remember, so take a moment in your life and think Why? Where? How? When?
I don’t know how we could ever repay those who had to give up their young ones to go off and fight in the war. Why do they have to grow up so fast. I will always treasure the
young men, and woman that sacificed their lives for us. I remember