Remembrance Day

A public event that took place recently is the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Grand Parade War Memorial. The event took place at 10:30 am on November 11, 2015 where many people from Halifax came to gather to remember the veterans that fought in the war for freedom for all Canadians. The ceremony consisted of veterans and RCMP marches, a moment of silence, placing of poppies and wreaths and readings. This event that took place was a time to gather and reflect on the wars that took place and the people who fought in them as well as the lives that were lost. The ceremony was one that is directly related to this course due to the readings that were about war and Canadians fighting in them. The march of veterans and RCMP was a time to reflect…

Remembrance Day Ceremony at ANZAC Cottage A field of white crosses and red poppies All are invited to attend the ceremony and the opportunity to place a poppy in the Field of Remembrance. ANZAC Cottage will once again honour its humble beginnings and the lost servicemen and women that gave rise to its creation, on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 10:45am, when the Friends of ANZAC Cottage will conduct a Remembrance Ceremony in the front garden of this historic Cottage. The eleventh hour of the…

Not once have I seen ANYTHING from Veterans Affairs, the legion or even from an actual veteran that putting up Christmas decorations before Remembrance Day is disrespectful to them. So why is everyone “quoting” these veterans and saying it is? If it is, let the veterans tell us themselves. Any veteran or current serving military I’ve actually talked to doesn’t find it disrespectful, in fact most of them put Christmas decorations up before November 11th. What I find disrespectful is everyone…

This day encourages every state member to honor the victims of the Holocaust. This is to also develop programs to help prevent future homicides and genocides. On January 27th, at approximately 11 a.m., there will be a commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day hosted at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. The event will star an ambassador of Sweden, Bjorn Lyrvall, and also a Holocaust survivor. There is a movie, and also a book, called “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” that…

Reminders From The Poppy On remembrance Day, Poppies are worn to remind us of the people who went to war, Civilians caught in Battle, and those who ultimately died during these times of hardship. Each year, remembrance day serves as a reminder to the Family and friends of those who passed away fighting for our country and those who are currently fighting. The poppy reminds us to remember, and honour the memories of soldiers and their families. Poppies lie in Flanders fields above the…

More Americans have heard of Oskar Schlinder, a businessman of Germany who employed more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust in efforts to keep the Nazi party from taking them to concentration camps, than they have heard about a Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws in order to let more than 6000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust survivors and their descendants remember…

Remembrance Day On November 11th, Canadians all across the country stop to remember all of the men who died and suffered in war to help the Canadian civilians. We are thankful for all the veterans and families, our freedom, by wearing a poppy. The veterans were not the only ones who suffered, for war has no respect for age or sex. Mothers and siblings suffered. Each family dreaded a telegraph boy showing up at their door, for it meant only two things, injury or death. People knew their…

The best experiences that I found were really interesting went on throughout the days of me helping out there. They were the stories that the residents told. I was at the houses over Remembrance Day and that week and I based some of the activities that I had done on the topic of remembrance. One lady grew up in England and went into the army at age 17. She was one of the many nurses working in the army at the time. She told me different stories about her time in the army and some of the…

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim...-Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust, also referred as the “Shoah” was a genocide of Jews by the Nazi Germany, with a Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire” , many people understood the term for crimes and horrors perpetrated by the Nazis, today it is celebrated internationally as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” every 27th of…

is trying to kill us or something. You saw when Jenny tripped over the curb and he didn’t even say anything?” “I know! I was gonna – “ The tall, lanky teacher strolled into the sweat-filled classroom and dropped his binder onto the organized desk. Leaning onto the wooden desk, he turned his back to the idle Smart Board and exclaims, “Okay, class! Focus! As some of us know, Holocaust Remembrance Day is coming up. Last week as a class, we talked about the tragedies of the Holocaust and who they…