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< < 6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 7,1990 Section Two Royal Canadian Legion... Then and Now Courtice School Selects Top Students in October There are a number of veterans organizations in Canada, the largest of which is The Royal Canadian Legion Legion with some 600,000 members. Prior to World War I, the armed services in Canada were represented by regimental regimental associations, scattered scattered units of various types and one national organiza- tion-The Army and Navy Veteran of Canada. Membership Membership was limited and groups seldom met outside of the country's larger urban centres. Their activities were restricted to the discussion discussion of military and national ■issues and support for their needy veteran comrades. Under complicated, often difficult conditions, some 15 disparate national veterans groups sprung up between -1917 and 1925. They had no united voice and their various various efforts produced no national national results. Attempts were made to coordinate their activities, but each group's objectives seemed to be slightly different from the others' and very little of substance substance was accomplished in spite of the members' best efforts. Finally, in 1925, The Dominion Dominion Veterans Alliance came into being, due largely to the influence of Field Marshal Earl Haig, Commander Commander in Chief of the British British Army. The dedication of Haig and General Sir Richard Richard Turner bore fruit and The Legion was bom. By July 1926 it was self- supporting. From its earliest beginnings, beginnings, The Legion concerned itself, quite naturally, pri marily with the fight to secure secure adequate pensions and other well-earned benefits for veterans and their dependents. dependents. Much was achieved in these areas, but the depression of the 1930s created a host of new pro- lems. The Legion was involved involved full-time in local, regional regional and national schemes to relieve the suffering of veterans-suffering which was made far worse by the harsh economic climate of the time. A most significant development, development, which occurred about this time, was the introduction introduction of the War Veterans Veterans Allowance Act in 1930. This specific legislation provided provided assistance to those veterans who were "prematurely. "prematurely. aged" by their wartime wartime experience, but who were not, in most instances, eligible for war disability pensions. World War II served to "revitalize" The Legion. New demands were placed upon it and there was a large influx influx of new members. The effort effort during, and immediately immediately after the war was prodigious. Canadian War Services provided amenities such as canteens, entertainment, entertainment, reading material, etc...for those at home and overseas-including troops at the front. The Canadian Legion Legion Educational Services provided correspondence courses and tutors to help prepare service personnel for their return to civilian life. After World War II The Legion played an important role in assisting eligible ex- service members in obtaining obtaining disability and other pensions. pensions. This work intensified' at the end of the Korean Conflict and the organization organization still maintains a network network of professional service officers whose job it is to provide help for veterans, ex-service members and their families in obtaining benefits to which they are Stoiy of the Poppy Each November over 14 million poppies bloom in Canada. Dotting the lapels of half of Canada's population, population, this symbol of remembrance remembrance makes its annual appearance appearance as it has done every year since 1926. Although everybody knows what the poppy means, no one is certain of how it all began; how the poppy became so closely associated associated with remembrance of the war dead. The association was cer- tainly not new when the Business Directory ACCOUNTANCY ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE WILLIAM C. HALL B. Comm. Chartered Accountant 35 King St. W., Newcastle Telephone 987-4240 Bragg Health Services Anna Bragg, R.N. Cert. Ref. Nurse Consultant Stress Management Alternative Health Care "Reflexology" R.R. 4, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3K5 Phone 623-9198 By appointment SUTHERLAND, HOBB and PARTNERS PeterA.Hobb.CA. WilmarJ. Bakker, C.A. Chartered Accountants 118 King St. E. Bowmanville 623-9461 Clinic For * w Natural Health Renée Bos Cert. Ref. IR. Nutr. Reflexology Iridology Stress Management Clinical Nutrition N. L. WOODHOUSE & Assoc. 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The Legion deals directly with the Federal Government Government to ensure veteran pensioners pensioners are treated fairly and acts as an advocacy agency on pensioners's behalf. behalf. The Legion has some egic 1800 branches in Canada, 34 in the United States and three in Germany. Wherever they are located, these branches play a vital role in their communities' day-to- day life, especially in the area of community service. The Legion supports sporting organizations, for adults and youth groups; provides scholarships and bursaries to deserving youngsters; contributes significantly significantly to programs for the elderly and disabled; and, works steadily to improve improve housing for veterans and senior citizens. The Royal Canadian Legion Legion has assumed responi- siblity for perpetuating thé tradition of Remembrance in Canada. Each year, The Le gion organizes and runs the Poppy Campaign. The campaign campaign not only raises money to assist needy veterans, ex- service members and their dependents, but equally important, important, it serves to remind Canadian of the tremendous debt owed to those who gave their lives in order that we may now live in peace and freedom. The Legion conducts conducts Remembrance Ceremonies Ceremonies on November 11th at cenotaphs across the country. country. The largest of these is the National Remembrance Day Ceremony held at the Canadian War Memorial in Ottawa. It is attended by the Prime Minister, The Governor General, Members of Parliament and members of the diplomatic corps as well as hundreds of veterans and thousands of members of the general public. The Legion is a non- dues-supported, fra- organization. it re- no financial assis- from any outside profit, temal ceives tance agency, Dr. Emily Stowe Public School in Courtice has initiated initiated the "students of the month" program to encourage encourage and reward students who have improved their marks or worked extra hard. The students selected for October are pictured here. In the back row from the left are: George Douglas, Carrie Oliver, Colin Sulli van, Nathan Kingsley, Jenny Chang, Kim Magahay and Judgsen Bridgewater. In the front row from the left are: Principal Wally Pitt, Caroline Cutler, Lisa Ritchie, Sarah Rotheram, Thomas Dell, Justin Jarvis, Matthew. Rytwinski, Tyler Teefy, Amanda Nippard, Cassandra Andress and Vice Principal Ron Tuttle. poppy was adopted in Canada Canada in 1921. At least a 110 years before that time, a correspondent correspondent wrote of how thickly poppies grew over the graves of the dead. He was speaking of the Napoleonic Napoleonic War and its campaigns in Flanders. But a Canadian medical officer was chiefly responsible responsible for this association, more so. than any other single known factor. John McCrea was a tall, boyish 43-year-old member of the Canadian Medical, Corps from Guelph, Ontario. An artillery veteran of the Boer War, he had the eye of a gunner, the hand of a surgeon surgeon and the soul of a poet when he went into the line at Ypres on April 22,1915. That was the afternoon the enemy first used poison gas. The first attack failed, so did the next and the next. For 17 days and nights the allies repulsed wave after wave of attackers. During this period, McCrae wrote "One can see the enemy lying there on the front field. And in places where the dead threw in an attack, they lie veiy thick on the slopes of the German trenches." Working from a dressing station on the bank of the Yser Canal, Lt. Col. McCrae dressed hundreds of wounded, wounded, never taking off his clothes for the entire 17 days. Sometimes the dead or wounded actually rolled down the bank from above into his dugout. While awaiting the arrival of batches of wounded, he would watch the men at work in the burial plots which were quickly filling up. Then McCrae and his unit were relieved. "We are weary in body and wearier in mind. The general impression impression in my mind is one of a nightmare," he wrote home. But McCrae came out of Ypres with 13 lines scrawled on a scrap of paper. The lines were the poem which started: "In Flanders field thepoppies blow.." These were the lines which are enshrined in the hearts of all soldiers who heard in them their innermost innermost thoughts. McCrae was their voice. The poem circulated circulated as does a folk song, by living word of mouth. Men learned it with their hearts. In Canada thé poppy was officially adopted by the Great War Veteran Association Association in 1921 on the suggestion suggestion of a Mrs. E. Guenn of France. But there is a little doubt that the impact of. McCrae's poem influenced this decision. The poem speaks of Flanders fields. But the subject is universal: the fear that in death we will be forgotten, forgotten, that death will have been in vain. The spirit of true Remembrance, Remembrance, ns symbolized by the poppy, must be our eternal answer which belies those fears. In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our places; and in tho sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid tho guns below Wo are the Dead. Short days ago Wo lived, folt dawn, saw sunset glow, Lovod, and woro lovod, and now wo lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with tho foe: To you from failing hands wo throw Tho torch; bo yours to hold it high. 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