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Preparing for Remembrance Day

As we look back on this year’s Legion Week, I want to thank several people for making this week a huge success. To our veterans and legionnaires who participated in our ceremonies, this week would not have been possible without you.
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Veteran Fred Medynski salutes during the singing of O Canada at the Remembrance Day ceremony Nov. 11 at Sudbury Arena. Photo by Arron Pickard.
As we look back on this year’s Legion Week, I want to thank several people for making this week a huge success.

To our veterans and legionnaires who participated in our ceremonies, this week would not have been possible without you.

To the sponsors of our activities, you certainly helped put smiles on a lot of seniors’ faces.

To Sudburians who took the time to visit us, we hope you will come back soon.

Most of all I want to thank the Northern Life editor and staff who helped us create an awareness of the work that we do.

As we move forward to perhaps one of the most important times of our year — Remembrance Day — I pause and think of those who came before me.

Remembering the veterans who served and paid the ultimate price so that we could live in this wonderful country of ours. I think of those, who, as we speak, are far away from their families, carrying the torch that was passed on to them.

I think of my grandchildren who are beginning to ask “why the Poppy.”

It’s so important that they learn the history, and, like the famous line in the poem In Flanders Field said, “We must take the torch and hold it high.”

We must remember them and not let their deaths be in vain.

This year, our poppy days will be Oct. 30-31. Legionaries and veterans will be located in and around the city. I am encouraging all citizens of this wonderful city to wear your poppy proudly.

Any member who wants to volunteer, please contact your local legion. I hope to see you all at the arena on Nov 11.

Gisele Pharand
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 76