{"id":4920,"date":"2020-11-11T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2020-11-12T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:10:10","slug":"a-day-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2020\/uncategorized\/a-day-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembrance Day in Canada is a day to remember those who’ve fallen in service to our country. We also remember those who’ve sacrificed the lives they knew and returned from battle, weary and forever scarred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Canada, we wear a poppy in honour of those who served.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Read the amazing poem Canadian soldier, poet and doctor, Dr. John McCrae<\/strong>,<\/a> wrote on the battlefield. In Flanders Fields<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Kendall (formerly Klewchuk)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had three uncles, Bill, George, and John Klewchuk, who served in WWII. One was in the air force, stationed in Northern Ireland and the other two were in the army and did battle in Italy. They returned home different men. George had nightmares every night for the rest of his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Kendall (formerly Klewchuk)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Bill reached his senior years, my husband and I had the pleasure of escorting him to the Royal Canadian Legion branch in his neighbourhood. He wore his medals with pride. There, he could have a few beers with other guys who understood what he’d gone through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Poem of Remembrance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I read the following in Maclean\u2019s magazine<\/strong> Nov. 23, 2009. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn a peaceful mission in an Afghan village, Captain Trevor Greene<\/strong><\/a> was sitting in a patch of shade with a circle of elders, his helmet off, when a teenager snuck up behind him, and buried an axe into his head, splitting his skull and his brain almost in half. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also learned that his wife and the medical staff in a Nanaimo hospital were helping him put his body together again. I was so moved by what Captain Greene went through, I was compelled to write the following poem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Day to Remember<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
I turn on the tube\nand watch a Remembrance ceremony,\nthen hear a soldier talk of letting go\nthe hate that came with battle\u2019s harm.\nIn halting words he shares the time\nhe sat on sand in a circle of men,\na few from his company\nand some from the so-called foe.\nHe sat there listening,\ntrying to make sense of a fight with no end,\n\u2018til a man with an axe struck him hard\non the back of his head.\nNo Call of Duty game here,\nno quick recovery,\nyet his faith in peace stayed,\ndespite an enemy\u2019s blow.\n\u00a0<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Freedom is not Free.<\/a> <\/strong>We owe so much to the brave men and women who are willing to sacrifice their lives for peace in their country. I am forever grateful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comments are always welcomed. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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