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Acton Wednesday Nov 1382 Only a tiny remnant know what wars all about I feel quite hurt this year Nobody has asked me to speak at their brance Day dinner would have turned it down of course because I think you can flog the old poppy and talk about throwing the torch from our failing hands only so long before it becomes irrele vant However I ve not been ignored en tirely A teacher asked me to send a copy of a Remembrance Day column I wrote either last year or the year before to be read by a Grade student to the whole school 1 presume gome order If I kept a decent file of columns I could put my finger on it run off a copy and snoot to him But my files are something like my mind scattered all over the place confused mixed up My wife in a fit of pique over some little thing once stuffed about of my columns Into a large plastic bag It a lillle difficult to reach into that bag it really a garbage bag as she Implied when she did it and pull out the right column And of course I haven t been forgotten by the good old administration of our school which has requested that write a twominute thing about Remembrance Day My how that day has shrunk When I was a kid the whole school marched to the arena bedecked with flags heard speeches about our fallen and our glorious dead I think we got the after noon off to enjoy immediate pleasures But before we were dismissed we heard some haunting hymns such as Abide with me and Lord help us Onward Christian Soldiers and saw some real tears fall from the eyes of people who had lost a husband or father After World War II but not for several years jointed the Canadian Legion because I wanted to particularly but be cause I was a weekly editor and you had to join everything to get the news year we swaggered with a tain amount of the old flair down the main street to the cenotaph followed by a ragtag of Scouts and Guides and Brownies to make up a parade and led by the town band The names of the local boys were read a prayers a hymn the Last Post some sniffles in the meagre audience and some wet eyes and lumps In throats among the Legionnaires who really did remember Then back to the Legion Hall for beer and s There was a good feeling bet ween the oldtimers of and young veterans who had never gone over the lop del ourselves attack or been under heavy bombard ment of artillery us the old vets fre quently reminded us The native Indian veterans turned out in force This was before they were allowed to buy any kind of spirits and they made a day of it Now the tiny remnant of old vets still remember but they are very old men And the young vets of that time are rapidly becoming old men Then I started teaching school Remembrance Day was still observed with the whole school being called for a special assembly and the old platitudes recalled and regurgitated I was asked to speak at one of them The head of the students council pre ceded me and pulled out all the cliches references Sacrifice fallen and carrying the torch were among them 1 t mean to but pulled the rug right out from under him 1 pointed out that the dead t fall they were killed that the sacrifice made by millions of young men from many lions all of them fighting for the right achieved absolutely nothing that if someone threw them a torch to carry they should throw it right back and so on The kids loved it but the ad ministration though It was iconoclastic These assemblies went on for a few more years steadily disintegrating as the remembrance ceremony was turned to whom both wars were ancient history They degenerated into folk songs like Where Have Ail the Flowers Gone juvenile diatribes against war and maudlin sentiments about peace far worse than the Legion which always had a certain dignity could perpetrate Eventually the assemblies were cut entirely and yours truly became the goat His task to write a twominute commercial reminding the students that Remembrance Day is not just a school Try doing that in 200 words that will stir the students 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