Thursday, November 12, 2015

Poppies and Remembrance Day...

To mark Remembrance Day and honour the veterans we visited the cemetery.
We slowly walked along the rows of graves in silence and read the stones...


Poppies are the symbol that we associate with Remembrance Day.

Listen to Leonard Cohen recite the Poem by John McCrae 
In Flanders Fields 





These poppies were painted by students at Central Middle School.
The students laid the stones on the graves joined by the sounds of bagpipes and drums played by 
The Royal Canadian Scottish Regiment Pipe and Drum Band.








Lest We Forget.

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16 comments:

  1. Stephen AndrewNovember 12, 2015 at 11:41 AM

    Lovely tribute and photos. What a great idea with the painted rocks!

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  2. Be it ever so HumbleNovember 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM

    Beautiful, Lest we forget.

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  3. SusanNovember 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM

    The roses on a grave are very poignant.

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  4. LPCNovember 12, 2015 at 5:38 PM

    Thank you for a post without jingoism. I always want to say, come this day, "We promise to try never to let it happen again."

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  5. Jen LawrenceNovember 12, 2015 at 5:50 PM

    It's so important that the schools still recognize this day. Never forget.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 12, 2015 at 9:21 PM

    Oops - a typo and easy to do- should be "Lest we forget"(because lest we never forget actually means "let's forget").

    The stones are a wonderful idea for remembrance.

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  7. Style and ReasonNovember 13, 2015 at 5:43 AM

    Chiming in to say that I really like the painted stones--a way to combine two traditions in one.

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  8. Madame Là-basNovember 13, 2015 at 6:01 AM

    Peace Assemblies were my favourite at school. The stones are a great idea. Monsieur and I visited the Commonwealth cemeteries in Belgium and it was so sad to see the number of really young Canadians who died in WW1.

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    1. hostess of the humble bungalowNovember 13, 2015 at 8:50 AM

      We saw a grave stone with a soldier's age at 16....far too young.

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  9. AnonymousNovember 13, 2015 at 6:39 AM

    This is a beautiful post of remembrance and respect. Anne H.

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  10. AnonymousNovember 13, 2015 at 7:24 AM

    Lovely tribute Leslie. What a wonderful idea to paint poppies onto stones. I always feel there is something very emotional about the sound of the bagpipes and drums...
    Rosie

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    1. hostess of the humble bungalowNovember 13, 2015 at 8:51 AM

      Those bagpipes get me every time...especially when they play Amazing Grace....the tears just flow.

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  11. La Vie QuotidienneNovember 13, 2015 at 9:13 AM

    How lovely the ceremony must have been...bagpipes always make me cry, they are so evocative. It must be my scotch heritage coming out.

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  12. JenniferNovember 13, 2015 at 10:22 AM

    Beautiful and poigniant.

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