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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-12-05, Page 12'•S Page 12—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 5, 1979 Announce winners of Legion contest The winners of the Royal Canadian Legion sponsored Poem and Essay competition were announced at the Nov- ember meeting of the local branch by chairman Irvine Eedy. There were 24 Essays with the following Intermediate winners: lst, Helen Macln- tyre, Lucknow Central Public School; 2nd, Jan Gibson, Brookside Public School; 3rd Marc Ackert, Lucknow Cent- ral. Winner of the Senior class for Essays was Lynne Hil- verda, F. E. Madill Second- ary School. Tracey McDonagh, Luck- now-.CentrarPublic. School placed first of 21 entrants in the Poems category. Lisa Brown and Suzanne Alton of Brookside Public School were 2nd and 3rd respectively: All winners received cash prizes and the first place Contestants will advance to Zone competition. REMEMBER By Lynne Hilverda How does our society , today react to Remembrance Day? Is it significant in any way at all -to us? Perhaps, the following true -life •episode will give us some idea as to the answer to this question. Picture a group of students walking down a virtually empty hall. Two or three of them are wearing poppies. Quite suddenly, one poppy becomes unfastened and drops to the ground. Some- one looks down, sees itbut continues walking, carelessly stepping on it. A girl sees this happen and feels she should say .something but does not. The group conti,n- ues on. The poppy lies for- gotten in an empty hallway, soon stained •by numerous footsteps, the brightness of it gone forever... Although this may seem like a very trivial incident, when one really thinks about it, an allegorical meaning begins to untold. The very fact that oily two or three people oil, of the entire group wear poppies tells us something significant. The majority of people, not only the members of the younger generation but many older individuals as well, do not. actively participate in Rem- embrance Day Services. They merely wear their pop- pies and, at best, take part in the services out of custom or for political reasons. The sudden displacement of the poppy may reflect the gradu- al decline in enthusiasm for this remembrance among many Canadians. The fact that one person notices it but keeps on walking and then steps on it, symbolizes the attitudes of many people: They are actually trampling the very significance of Rem- embrance Day under their feet when they just give the day a caslral thought and nothing else. There are oth- ers, likethe girl who notices the poppy, who realize that there is more to this event than wearing a poppy and attending a Remembrance Day service, They sense that there is a deeper meaning underlying all this pomp and ceremony, and yet they too, choose to just give it a passing, solemn thought and then forget about it. They had the chance to speak up and come to a fuller realiza- tion but they did not take it. And so the lives of Canad- ians continue just as they have for years and the meaning of this celebration is leftlying in the dirt. The glory and respect we should be giving as rich and thank- ful people are gone and the time for rejoicing in our free- dom is transformed into a mere traditional act. Many Canadians, especial- ly the younger ones who have never experienced a war, tend to take this hard won freedom for granted and even. go so far as to question whether it really was that hard won. Well, was it? Sixty thousand Canadian men sac- rificed their lives during the first war alone. On Easter Monday, April 1917 at Vimy Ridge there were thirteen thousand and four hundred Canadian casualties. Then, at Passhendale, in the midst of waist deep mud and unbel- ievable conditions, sixteen thousand Canadian soldiers fought to their deaths. These figures surely erase all doubt, concerning the price paid for our feedom, from our minds. I feel a deep sense of pride and am almost jealous of those. men. They were surely more loyal and true Canadi- ans than I will ever be. They loved their country enough to go out and fight for it, even to their death, for me. Yes, they did it for me, since I am the one who is reaping the— benefits hebenefits of their sacrifice. • I wonder if 1., myself, as a Canadian, am worthy of the sacrifice they made for the freedom I enjoy. War is a tragedy. The men who fought in the bloody mud of the battlefields saw little glory, lam' sure. Mis- ery, frustration, fearand an- guish dominate everything else in war. I must agree with. Brigadier General Menard: "In war there are no win- ners". Remember the hor- ror! Remember the sacrifice! Do we owe anything to those men who gave up the one most valuable thing in the world for our freedom? The human life is the most precious possession and they. unselfishly offered it up for their country. They have passed the torch to us! What, are we doing with it? There is talk already of a Third World War. Has the peace torch become just a symbol of sacrifice for us, and what of the poppy? One thing is sure, if you and 1 fail to daily strive, to maintain the peace, for which they fought, their sac- rifice will, indeed prove to have been in vain. Can we allow ourselves to forget the terror of the ordeal those men faced and the price they paid? Where has the rea- ember in Remembrance Day gone? REMEMBRANCE DAY By Helen. Maelntyre, "Don't worry about your hair; we are going to belate for the service."- With frust- ration. in your voice, you reply, "Why do I have to go this service? All you do is stand around remembering someone you never knew before and a war which happened long before I was born." Dressed in your best Sunday outfit, you stand for two minutes silence watching people cry in the freezing cold. In your head, questions flash back and forth. The only . people who have the answers are the ones who lived through one or both wars. You wonder why they left their loved ones, their homes and jobs: Would you be willing to do this for our free country? Most people wouldn't, as this is a genera- tion of greed,vandalism, drugs and crime. We have no idea what war is like. Only by watching movies and films do we realize how bad it really was. Still, films have no way of showing us what the war was like and personally, 1 would not want to find, out. Guns, November eleventh conies and your mom is yelling, people being killed, and fighting for their lives are not what I call fun. Someone had to fight and the men, who did, were very brave, We should be thankful we were born when we were and that we have not experienced a World War. Also be thank- ful that Canada is free. Every year veterans of the war stand on the corner selling poppies. I wear a poppy to show respect for those who fought in the war. They went overseas to Eur- LUCKNOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Wm. Munshaw. B.A. M. Div. SUNDAY, DEC. 9 10 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Morning Worship Everyone Welcome ope not knowing what was going to happen to them, living in mud shacks, ditches and going without nutritious food. On the fields men's lives flashed in .front of their very own eyes and seeing their friends lying dead and dying on the field was a very terrifying experience. Men wondered if they would ever see theirloved ones again,. while families at home did. the same. 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