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TIIFNHlLI0LTI0OKSaturda November 1083 Page 5 Remembering war has a purpose By RICHARD E St Pauls Church Thispast September I was serv ing at the chapel on the Canadian Forces Base in Baden The an of the outbreak of the Se cond World War took place while I was there but most of the people there seemed unaware of the fact There wasnt a word in the forces newspaper and hardly a mention on the Canadian radio station there Nobody wanted to remember By contrast I was surprised by the extensive attention paid to the anniversary in the German magazines and newspapers For a week there seemed to be nothing else on the radio The networks broadcast a lot of documentaries and there were also countless in with people who were around at the time They told ol the pressures they felt or of the way they got caught up unthinkingly in the enthusiasm of the day or of the family members they lost or of some of the terrible things that happened to them As questions were asked they opened up and talked freely They wanted to remember When we start to recall there are things we sometimes would rather remain hidden In a woods just outside the base there is a memorial to about German soldiers who fell on the same day in They tell two stones about it One is that they were killed by a mortar The other is that the war was coming to an end they decided they had had enough of fighting and were just going home and they were shot by one of their own officers Campbell House Gallery 115 MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN Above McCarthys Tea Room 8730674 Good service good coverage goodprice- Thats State Rum insurance 1 St Georgetown 8731833 Like a good neighbor State Farm is there FARM Mm While I was there book by a Canadian author was published here which charged that after the end of the war German prisoners of war were kept French and American camps where they were dented the food and tents that wore available where the Red Cross was kept out and where thousands upon thousands died as a result of a deliberate policy of revenge have questioned some of the numbers in the book but grudgingly admitted that the author seems to have uncovered a dark secret Anyone who has experienced war whether as a civilian or a knows of horrible things they would rather forget But we remember and we remember with a purpose Almost every interview I heard on the radio that week ended with the question What would you say to people today And almost everyone answered We cant let it happen again 756 Squadron director is Director of the Year The director of Georgetown Air Cadet Squadron has been named the Director of the Year by the Air CAdet League of Canada Rod founder and first acting director of the squadron was honored by the an meeting of the Ontario Pro vincial Committee branch of the ACLC held Nov and Mr MacDonald was given the award by Harold Fowler Na tional President of the ACLC Fifty directors were competing for the award Mr is vicechairman on the provincial committee and has served on various selection boards for the member of Wing 400 of Royal Canadian Air Force Association Rod He has served in both the RCAF and the RAF in Britain Europe and the far east Remembrance Day recalled in verse IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row Thai mark our places and In the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard amid the guns below We are the Dead Short days ago We livid felt dawn saw sunset glow Loved and were loved and now we lie In Flanders fields Take up our quarrel with the foe To you from falling hands we throw The torch be yours tb hold it high If ye break faith v Ith us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders fields No matter the country no matter the belief The youth was sacrificed to an ancient creed They did not know they did not care That youth in bloom means harvest fair Then came he reaper with scythe unsheathed And claimed the crop of youth unleashed When time it came to see the fault Sad eyes beheld the lame and the halt IN REMEMBRANCE The years go the seasons change But bloodied memories remain the same The youthful glow when first thev passed That sparked the world and held them fast Wounded and wounded in soul The youths thai were were suddenly Did Their world had changed and so had the Bullet no one forget the led the wa Colin Gibsoi INSTALLATION CLINIC SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 900 am to 100 pm BRUCE HARDWOOD FLOORS SPECIAL PRICES AVAILABLE AT THE CLINIC GUELPH STREET GEORGETOWN ONT