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The Brussels Post, 1973-12-12, Page 3he er her ry het ty to the a he er nd • SYLVANIA Solid State Stereo Mediterranean Console, Model .4S382, Cablitetty of aatect- ed,hakdweiods- and veneers in Distressed Antique Span, iSh MLitt, Cori oealed carpet easters. W; 401/2", H: 25", bt Veatiniesi bynathin It) Solid State '8teteo. FM/AM/ Stereo-FM Solid' State Tunereparate basS, and treble tone controls • Stereo balance control • Prialibtittota Specked SeleCtor • dareara 2025 anti:pita* record Changer' with' diaritOnti _needle • Stereo headphone jack • Tape' input and Output Jacks • Four Speakers:. two ' basswoofers and tWO.2%"' tweeters • iiktehiloh speaker' Jacks shelf Spade for records or optional tape deck: • •• With 00 Tape Deck 309 Picked up M.0 SMITH . Tan: aft Hwy. 86 at ghat Grey Townlqitie mid follow the sips - • 1 Brussels pupils advance Remembrance Day contest in in The Brussels. Canadian Legion each year sponsors an Essay poem Remembrance .• Day Contest, for entries. written by pupils of Brussels Central School. The winning Poem & Essay Is. sent on to Kincardine for further competition, ' • Winners this year are as follows: Essays 1st - • Carol. Raymond; 2hd. Carol Wheeler; 3rd Joan Huether ; Poems 1st - Dianne Stephenson; 2nd. Catherine Cardiff; 3rd.-Susane Kingsbury Remember, Think, Participate By Carol Raymond • What are the meanings of the Motto? "Remember" means the remembering which the legion members do when they gather together. They think of their comrades who fought side by side with them during the war, many of whom did not return to their homes and families. They recall the good and bad times they shared and they know it is good to remember in this way. For those who did return know that they have much for which, to be grateful..To remember, they gather.at the cenotaph on November eleventh to offer prayers and to' speak once again the names of the men. ,to. whom we should be grateful. "Think" is for the people of the younger generation who did not experience the war and do not know what it was like. The older people must tell us and explain the true value of peace which we should be so grateful for, 'How should we know the horror of the war, the mental and moral decay, as well - as the physical destruction? How can we truly value the freedom of Canada when we have never known any thing else? • "Participate" is getting volved with the •remembering of the soldiers. It is not just to think of the soldiers but to get in to the, action by every cla giying a little Of oneself. ' a This • kind of 'participating means to be kind to old people, to do errands for those who are unable to do them for theinselves. Another way is to visit people in nursing' homesand hospitals: , Young people who want to participate 'could"learn more about the work of the legion: "Remember, Think, Participate". These are the stepping stones to Remembrance Day. We depend on the members of the legion, the older generation, to tell us how to remember. Those who fought for peace and freedom know how to value what we have and they must help us to find the way, so that we will be willing' to do everything • in our power to preserve and protect Canada. Remembrance Day Message By Carol Wheeler "Canada, ,Our Home and Native Land" ,'means a great deal to me, aland of great opportuni- ties, a land of plenty, and a land of freedom, and has to many before ine,as was very evident by the many a men who left all this and went off to fight and protect our country in the world wars. ,Many of these men did not return and others have lived with injuries and handicaps both big and small ever since, but they felt their country was worth fighting for. The passing of time does not diminish the quality of the sacrifice of our brave men. If these men had so much love and courage, are we letting them down by the lack of love' and for the consideration of our neighbours both near and far? Too, often we think of ourselves, only of ourselveS. What would have happened if these men had taken this attitude and 'thought only of themselves? Hitler thought only of himself and wanted to' be ruler' of the world and we know the suffering Se caused. The noble men who have gone before us have set a high mark. We are called to go forth and spread peace. We realize with humble gratitude that we have a great honieland, where we can Observe our day of Remembiance in freedom. The Canadian soldiers were very highly respected during the wars and to this day 'still have this high respect no matter where you travel. As Canadians, let us not destroy this image. Let us try to live up to the standard for which these men fought and died. We are now but in a country of peace, but this could very easily change if we don't loVe 'and help others and try to improve our ways. We should be generous and accept' good things for our brothers with many languages and cultures and faiths. If we can't, agree in our class-rooms, communities, and our jobs, which is evident by all the riots and strikes we hear of every day, I, fear these men may have died in' vain. Men have bought and paid for this fteedom so let's remember to work at keeping it and not, try to be a dictator but one of the Army, as we have seen the results of dictatorship., We may be timid and feel' we would like to give up, and let the whole sad state of affairs go "smash", but we know we cannot do that because of sacrifices made for us. On Remembrance Day we remember the sacrifices made by all the men to protect our land; and we will make our' prayers to God to teach us the way of peace, that we may be 'worthy to follow in their' footsteps. The message "Remembrance" has for . me is that these men should be remembered not once a year but every day of our lives. They earned this' respect. Let us see that they get it. Do You Remember? By Joan. Huether You see them on the streets in' every dwindling numbers - the legiorinair,es, their medal's polished and dangling frOm havy-hlUe blazers and in the trays the pressed paper -symbols of remembrance . on 'this Set-aside day of November 11. • But it is More than a generation since the Second War ended and it 'is more than half a century since the First World War. • A symbol of remertibrance was given birth in John McCrae's immortal poem., "In Flanders Fields". What do poppies mean to today's children? Even to many of their teachers arid parents war is history; hoW can 'they, translate the agony to a gerierati_On even' drtliet removed? There is no glarnotitl rio glory, no right War for this generation. There is peace, .,and that is, what everyone wants to Celebrate, In More prosaic terms it is a school holiday exbept in 1013' when it fell ottSunday. It is more than just tittle passing. We ttitiSt be aware of_the fad that vast nunibdrs died in the Second and Korean Wars. It is the inevitable 'disappearance of the veteratig. The youngest are hi their late-fertiek nOW. The Canadian Legion is teyitig to sWitti with the: tide "to get closet to young people fi not to glorify *at," We do have` a duty to tottetttbet the SaCrifice. There iS a &ideal need to get a hew message of Itemeitibratied. into teltbOIS, to telate future.. Remembrance can mean sonriethirig to those who don't remember war. It is a time to dedicate oneself to good citizen- ship. Bands play, veterans march, crowds watch as wreaths are laid on Cenotaphs to_honour the dead. But haw few of us remember the living confined to veterans' hospitals across Canada! Are the only ones who care the wives, mothers and sisters, who day after day, year after year, visit their husbands,, sons and brothers? Many of the older patients are paralyzed and senile. They do not really know who has visited 'them. „.Love does not recognize ' these' •changes but cannot abandon the loved ones: These women endure as. Shakespeare says, "Like• patience on a monument, Smiling at grief". Other younger wives of physically disabled patients come daily to push the chairs of the legless, armless,• crippled, near- paralyzed husbands down hospital corridors., Many patients are without families and without visitors. There can be nothing so lonely as old age without friends. On' Remembrance Day we honour the dead of three wars. Let us try to teach our. children to conquer -evil and stamp out wars by making peace symbols and truces and instill into their minds that over two thousand years ago Jesus Christ came into the world to teach usAhat love has supreme power. If peace is taught and practised- all over the world there will .be no more wars. We should also teach them to' realize how fortunate we are to -live in this land of Canada where there is love, peace and freedom. "For our todays the fallen veterans gave all their tomorrows:" Dare any ' of us forget this fact that Remembrance . Day has no message? Not if we're honest with ourselves. •So wear a poppy and think of these veterans on this one day of the year set aside by the Canadian Government to honour them. "If you can't remember, think!" HELP US REMEMBER By Dianne Stephenson We are young and we need help To reinember the lives, that were lost, Of sad and quite confusing years Great in sorrow and large in cost. My Grandfather had the call of duty, So did my great uncles George, Ralph y Sandy and Joe I know, Because my Grandmother told me so, The war WaS won and some returned. They had beaten that frightful foe, I know, Because my Grandmother told' me so.' They then married and their sons Were, grown .To again hear that cry of woe Oft to defend their country I kritiiv My Mother told nie so. We're growing up without much fear Without; Much thought of war But once a year a day is. set. To remember what Our Inert • fought for. We leave our church To help us to. The veterans band; Our ehurch was crowded to the door The minister spolce of faith and trust As we all prayed for war no more. If we can all keep love for all, And make new friends where'ere we go, Our fears would all soon' uP-1 disappear I know, the Bible tells me so. DO YOU REMEMBER? By Catherine Cardiff Do you remember the years of bitter strife? The years when soldiers fought and died? Do you really remember? ' Did your loved ones fight? Did your loved-ones die? Do you know why they lay the wreaths? Do you know why tears are -shed? Will you remember on the eleventh of November? The years soldiers fought and died, • Suffering years of bitter pain, • :Battling not' just the 'enemy But the hardships of the season. They fought till minds became insane , • In deep dark trenches That flowed with blood and pain With fortitude and, fists clenched ' tight They passed the nights and dawnings came Men were uprooted from their homeland Taken to, foreign% terrain. Messages from home not always got through. Military passes made the time shorter. Rations were never the same as. Mom's And some nights, stomact s yearned. Nothing filled the space that' An ocean could put between there and home. • Can you really remember? That your loved ones did fight. That your loved ones did. die. Can you lay a wreath? Can you shed a tear? t Can you remember on the eleventh of November? • I.A.111 DEAD By Suzanne Kingsbury I am deddi T died for you, 'Was it 'worth all my effort? Was it Worth all our lives? ant dead Why did I die? I died to fight for our country 'And I died for our nations and families. I am dead! I 'have poppies, These were made by war veterans So you could help remember the dead, I..• am dead! , 1) o you hold two minutes Siletieet- Do you keep it in remembrance of us? ketneinbet, we died for your Freedoin! ""there : are some .j' *he , Shake *Our hand Wets an election •and- shake ;Yott Con. 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