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So young, so brave, so dead Sunday in Halton Hills, Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held. Pardon me if I inject a personal note. My father served 17 years as a Professional soldier with the British army. He joined as boy soldier at age 14 and was shipped to the far East a year later. He fought in the Burma campaign, escaped from the Japs on a freighter, which was torpedoed, floated 28 days in a lifeboat on the Indian Ocean and was the only white man out of 528 doomed pas- sengers to survive when the boat beached. He fled to the jungle, was captured and spent three years in a Japanese London, Ont. His ailment? he suffers flashbacks — finally diagnosed by doctors in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. He remembers all too vividly the carnage of war he observed and was an active Participant in. I love you dad and I honor your sacrifice. Colin Gibson “In Flanders Field” y pies blow Take up q ith the foe: the crosses, row on row, Toyou from failing hands we throw That mark our place; and in thesky ‘The torch; be yours to hold i high, The larks, still bravely singing fly If ye break faith with us who die iid the guns below We shall not sleep, though poppies We are the Dead. Short days ago grow in Flanders fields. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset . John McCrae Loved, and were loved, and now we In Flanders fields Their Name Liveth for Evermore Acton Branch 197 Royal Canadian Legion Killed in action — 1914-1918 Cpl. JL. Moore Pte. T. Irving Cpl. Roy Hurd Pte. G. McLeod Cpl. W: G. Brown Pte. A Winterburn 3D.B Lieut. H.G. King . M. Kaley Pte. A. Gribben Capt. T.A. Arthurs Pte. P. Radford Pte. A. Anderson, ... .., Sgt.W, Lee... Pte. F. Elkingtc~ Sgt. P. Godfrey Pte. F. Will Cpl. F. Masters Pte. J. Fry J. Sgt. Maj. N. Stucl_y | Killed in action - 1939-1945 Andersor. AC.E.A. Staff Sgt. N. L. McNabb F/Sgt. KH. Buck W/O G.A: Mollozzi F/O W.R. Elwood Wing Comm. D.G.Morris Pte. John Gibbons GNR. F. Near Pte, Wilson Gordon L. Cpl. AE. Perryman F/O J.T. Gu Pte. R. Robertson Lieut. Rae Hillier L. Cpl. H.L. Simpson Sgt. Wilfred McCron GNR. G.A. Smethurst Sgt, Wilfred McCron Pte. Jack Sweeney Sgt Gordon K. McLellan Pte. G.H. Taylor Pte. C.H. Webster Post War active service — F/O R. Rolson Georgetown Branch 120 Royal Canadian Legion Killed in action - 1914-1918 FI/Lt. C: Barber Pte. J. Cowan Pte. W. Loud FILt. C. Somerville Pte. H. Francis . Pte. D. McKenzie Lieut. E. Leslie Pte. S. Godfrey Pte. G, Mason Sgt. James Blair Pte. J. Presswood Pte. W. Phillips Sgt. W.C. Granger - I. Green Pte. G.H. Sleightholme Sgt. Obs. H. Nelle Pte. H. Hickey . G.H. Spires Sgt. J. Moore Pte. P. King Pte. S. Stawicky L/Cpl. A.S. Mino fe. W. King Pte. E. Cornish Pte. J. Campbell Pte. J.E. Kennedy Killed in action, died while on service — 1939-1945 F/O John Evans illiam Carney Pte. William Wylie F/O William McLaughlin Cpl. Carl Hyde Pte. Robert Wylie Lt. John Bowman Rfm. J. Davis Pte. Jack Kendall F/O Norman Baily . Harry Dickenson Pte. Reg. Blair Lt. Bruce Zimm Pte. Stanley Dickenson Pte. John Hemphill P/O Carman Sutcliffe Dvr. Claude Dillon Pte. George Latimer P/O James Louth Pte. Edward Doyle Pte. Harvey Davidson F/O William Murphy Pte. Ervine Hilts vr. R. Allen F/Sgt. Lawrence Beaumont Pte. Fred Kidd Pte. J. Jamieson Sgt. Stewart Maclaren Pte. John O’Kane Tpr. Howard Conn Sgt. Hubert F. Tost Pte. John Oliver. Pte. William Kay Cpl. Hedley Shaw AJB Victor Millar Pte. Clarence Beaumont Pte. H. Simpson Killed in action in Korea - 1951 Cpl. Ron Edmunds . Ken Norton Died while on U.N. service in Egypt - Pte. Chris Dodge Page 4 — Halton Hills. This Week; Saturday, November 6; 1993 Opinion prisoner-of-war camp. He is in a veterans hospital in} Editor’s- ‘note: Jody Johnson of Limehouse wrote this article in 1988, when she was a Grade 7 student at Stewarttown Public School. Jody is now in Grade 12 at Georgetown District High School. It is one of these grey and cold November days. A gust of wind swirls up the leaves on the edge of the pavement and there is the smell of snow in the brisk air. A young brownie stands alone with her thoughts. She is dressed entirely in brown except for a brightly colored scarf with beautiful orange maple leaves. The young brownie watch- es as the Remembrance parade passes by. Somehow, this is a very different parade from others she has observed. There are no balloons, no smiling clowns, no decorated floats with whimsical charac- ters. The flags-are first and are held proudly as they are car- Hope for the futur By Eileen Ross, © Canadian Remembrance Halton tits This Week, ‘Web Printing. HIS WEEN Georgetown, Ont. L7G 481, PUBLISHER: Ken Bellamy —_ EDITOR: Colin Gibson OFFICE MANAGER: Jean Shewell CIRCULATION MANAGER: Marie Shadbolt HALTON HILLS THIS WEEK IS INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED. HONE: 873-2254 Fi tied from the church. The November wind catches the colors and the red Canadian maple leaf unfurls against the grey sky. Behind the colors come the pipers and the aging veterans wearing their medals of silver and bronze. They are’ proud-men and women in their berets and blazers and blood red poppies adorn their chests. Their lined faces seem to tell stories of heroism and pain, of memories etched in sorrow and battlefields filled with mud. They are no longer the naive young men march- ing enthusiastically off to war. Now, their steps are slower and’ their. numbers much z The veterans move on and the young brownie feels listens to the names of the young Canadian men and women who lost their lives in two World Wars and in Korea. She hears the lonely call of the bugle and bows her head in silence. She watches as the brittle wreaths are laid at the foot of the memorial she now -begins to under- » Stand. the = meaning... of ... Day con- jures up painful memories of loss and anguish. For those of us in i Rei because we can’t possibly imagine the heartbreak the effects of war have had. on People. We have not had to. go through the pain of losing someone close to us, or.being Part of a world war ourselves. Ideas and a sort of symbol- ism are embedded in our minds that generalize the feel- ings and events about war. Students at Georgetown District High School were asked about what Remembrance Day means to them. Cindy Lawrence 18, OAC. “I think of poppies and the many people who died.” Jen Richards 17, Grade 12. “T think about all of the people | who died.” Sara Hillman 17, OAC. “I think of armies and the medals people received.” Suzanne Nixdorf 17, Grade 12. “I think about what life was like for my grandfather in the war and the friends he lost.” (Name not given) 17, Grade 12. “War, cemeteries and pop- pies.” Denise Egerton 19, OAC. “I think about all the soldiers ate what went on during the world wars, for which I am grateful. To Remembrance Day is a day to think about the brave and selfless people who laid their lives down for their country. The young brownie has grown older now and she has experienced many more Remembrance Day parades. As time goes by, she notices the ranks of those who sur- vived ‘the horrors of Passchendale, in Flanders, the pebbled beaches of Dieppe and that hillin Korea have become thinner. Sometime in the next'century, she thinks, re will be no veterans left. She wonders. if Remembrance Day will also be forgotten: Tno longer;wear my brown uniform with its brightly col- ored scarf, but I feel it would be a mistake to forget the lessons of the past, for they have value in the future. “Ared poppy did lay. r Jack Brassley was killed in action while serving with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in 1942 in Libya. He was buried at Bengazi. - A brother remembered I walked through the corn-_Ilooked down at my feet fields 5 Where the poppy did lay; One bright‘sunny day». ItJooked so fragile. «=. And there at my feet And so far away Till the sun came out Iremembered my childhood With a brilliant light, And the stories I'd heard And the poppy lifted its head Of men called to battle To that heavenly sight. When war was declared. I suddenly knew, One was my brother, Ithad not been in vain, He never came bac! My mother’s only son. His name was “Jack”. How they fought to bring freed It was all worthwhile, ‘The tears and the pain. Tam alive! - And so are you Let’s all pull together fi And see it through, To lands far and wide, Remembering those But the price was so bitter Who died for you. And the conflict hard In loving memory of my only Was it worth all those tears brother, who was killed on And Heartaches untold? active duty in Libya in 1942, _1st Royal Tank Regiment Poem by Ada Ward (nee Brassley) Is the world any wiser Or am I just growing old? The Lorne Scots formed the Honor Guard in Wageningen Holland, in front of Hotel de Wereld where German staff agreed to surrender terms offered by Allied General Foulkes... z