Remembrance Day in Toronto

Celebrations of the armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 took place around the globe yesterday. NTDs Arnaud Camu brings us the story from Torontos Old City Hall.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place;
and in the sky/The larks, still bravely singing, fly/Scarce heard amid the guns below.

[Crystal Sayler, Teacher]
"Remembrance day is something that's important to everyone because it has impacted the world. People gave their lives so other's could live"

We are the Dead. Short days ago/We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,/Loved and were loved, and now we lie/In Flanders fields.

[Jennifer Fidler, Acting Sub-Lieutenant]
"I wonder sometimes what horrors have they actually seen when they come here and they remember their friends who have died"

[Jim Parks, War Veteran]
"We where surrounded by the SS Division but one company had a good position and we held them off anyway. It was every man for himself for a while."

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw/The torch; be yours to hold it high.


And as John McCrae finished his famous poem: If ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fields.

Arnaud Camu, NTD, Toronto.

*: The famous WWI poem read by the reporter is entitled Flanders Fields, written by the Canadian Lieutenant Colonel, John McCrae, on May 3, 1915.

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