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 * Theme: Emphasis on Sacrifice for and by Family and Cultural Community**
 * Tuesday November 10th**

Check and work around period 4 & 5 Monday (Robertson?) in the Theatre and Morning of the 10th.
Staff/Students Family pictures of veterans?


 * Honoured Guest(s):** Mr Sharpe Mr Finstad (Ranks and First Names): Veterans Colin Clay and ____ Boyes (Titles): Cameron Arcand ? Rank Reserves)

MC's: Sarah Craven/ Victoria Welland/ Andrew Owen/ Aakashdeep Mundi AV: Check with Evan Cole Sound and Light: Cadets Flag Party: Bailey Mckinnon, Kate Langhorne

__**Readers:**__ **Breann Steckler (Vimy Participant)****/ Laniece?/ Ian Finstad and David Sharp/ Adam Kahpeaysewat/ Savannah Rempel/ James Kiehn/ Erica Pietroniro/**

__**#1 ? (Vimy Memorial 1936 19 years after batttle at Vimy. Locally band shell created 1937 to commemorate) over 50 students, 40 from Marion Graham have signed up**__ __**to pay their way to travel to Vimy in April of 2017 to pay tribute exactly 100 years later)**__

__**#2 the painting of the blinded soldiers of world war 1 guiding each other.**__

__**#6 (Hong Kong POW WW II)**__ __**#7 Laniece (French Immersio) (summary of Grandfather's letter's)**__ __**#8"The Ground from Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo " Length roughly 4minutes)**__
 * 9 Official titles (Service: Head Commander of Dundurn Military Base and officer both having children attending Marion Graham. Veterans Colin Clay and Boyes)**


 * Music:**

Bag Pipes: Entrance with Flag Party and Dignitaries Oh Canada by M. Tang on the Piano ?(2 minutes)

Last Post (Trumpet) (Andrew Owen) Bagpipes Rouse (Trumpet) (Andrew Owen)

"The Ground" in Latin by composer Ola Gjeilo from Sunrise Mass. Length roughly 4 minutes
 * Choir:**

====AV1:( Slide Show of Former family members of Staff and Students that have served and are Serving in the Canadian Forces) //Running as students and staff are getting seated and continue to run as they sit for 2 minutes)//====
 * Outline:**

"Guests, students and staff, please stand with us for the entrance of the dignataries"
MC: Andrew Owen "You May Now Be Seated**"**

MC: Sarah Craven We thank you for joining us today in Remembrance of all the men, women and children who have been affected by war. We are here today to honour the brave men and women who served, and are still serving. We are here to take time to remember the sacrifices they and their families made, and are still making. We are all connected by the land that we share, and the homes that we would do anything to protect. We must remember that the freedom Canadians enjoy has come at a significant cost, and that the stories of the brave people who paid that price are here to inspire us, connect us, and remind us of how fortunate we truly are. Reminding us of our duty to keep the flame within the torch of remembrance burning vibrantly. (Pause)
 * Welcome Honoured Veterans and Honoured Current members of the Service and Reserves. Welcome to all guests, teachers and fellow students:**

MC: Victoria Welland The slide show that was running as you entered the theatre is of Friends and Family of Marion Graham Students and Staff who have served or are presently serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. A number of the photos are of Marion Graham herself, who was one of the first commissioned Female Flight officers in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Canada's military history since confederation has been dominated by the World Wars. From 1914 to 1918 Canada participated in the First World War, with enlistments of nearly 600 000 out of a 7.5 million population. Of those who enlisted, over 60,000 died and 150,000 were wounded. In World War II Canada had another 40,000 killed and 100,000 wounded. Yet since the World Wars Canadian soldiers and their loved ones have continued to make sacrifices for our benefit. The Korean war from 1950 to 1953 saw 1,500 Canadians lose their lives. Today Canada continues its involvement with NATO along with 28? other countries. Finally, from its formation headed by future Canadian Prime-Minister Lester B. Pearson, Canada has a long standing tradition of contributing to United Nations Peacekeeping.
 * MC:** Aakashdeep Mundi

We have been fortunate that the wars and battles we have been involved in since confederation have taken place on foreign soils. In order for our troops to arrive at the battlefields of the the World Wars they depended on the railway and Navy to get them there. The naval journey was especially treacherous with German U-Boats lurking in the North Atlantic waters.
 * MC: Andrew Owens**

(AV2/Slide#2: Gassed) MC:Sarah Craven During the next four years, as we look back to soldier sacrifices in World War One, it is hard to imagine what soldiers were exposed to and suffered for us a hundred years ago. The use of poison gas was one element of World War One warfare that was powerfully captured in this large oil painting by Jon Singer Sargent.  It depicts the aftermath of a  mustard gas attack.

MC: Aakashdeep Mundi The first large-scale use of lethal poison gas on the battlefield was by the Germans on 22 April 1915 during the Battle of Second Ypres.

At Ypres, Belgium, the Germans had transported liquid chlorine gas to the front in large metal canisters. With the wind blowing over the French and Canadian lines on 22 April, they released the gas, which cooled to a liquid and drifted over the battlefield in a lethal, green-yellow cloud. While some troops fled in panic, the Canadians held their ground. The British responded with their own chlorine attacks in September 1915, during which a change in wind direction resulted in more than 2,000 British soldiers being gassed by their own chemicals. Deadlier gasses and more reliable delivery systems were introduced later in the war. The Germans unleashed mustard gas in the summer of 1917. It attacked the skin and blinded its victims, thereby defeating existing gas masks and respirators. It’s those affects that are depicted so graphically in the painting shown appropriately entitled “Gassed”.

(AV2/Slide#3: Albert Mountain Horse)

MC: Victoria Welland Albert Mountain Horse a Kainai (Blood) First Nation, was born on the Blood reserve located beside the town of Cardston in South Western Alberta. In April 1915 he was one of the Canadian soldiers directly exposed to the first use of poison gas in World War One, at the second battle of Ypres.

Reader: Adam Kahpeaysewat “I was in the thick of the fighting at Ypres, and we had to get out of it. The Germans were using the poisonous gas on our men – oh it was awful – it is worse than anything I know of. I don’t mind rifle fire and the shells bursting around us, but this gas is the limit.”

MC: Andrew Owen <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Albert Mountain Horse in the spring of 1915, was gassed on two subsequent occasions; his lungs were so weakened that tuberculosis set in and he died on November 19th 1915.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nine days from now will be the day that commemorates exactly 100 years since his passing.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(AV2/Slide #4: Mike Mountain Horse Pictograph on Cow Hide)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">After their brother’s death Joe and Mike Mountain Horse enlisted. Joe was wounded in 1917 in the first engagement at Arras, France, and Mike in the second battle of Cambrai in 1918. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Both recovered. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> In 1939 Mike would again enlist for overseas duty.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">MC: Sarah Craven <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mountain Horse’s great-nephew James Dempsey, from the University of Alberta, dedicated his master’s thesis to the prairie-province First Nations and Métis men who served in the Great War and spent close to three years uncovering his great-uncle’s military involvement. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dempsey says Mike Mountain Horse enlisted partly to avenge his brother’s death but mostly because he supported the cause. He also wanted to prove that the First Nation warrior ethic had not been dampened by reserve life. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike Mountain Horse recorded his war experience in a unique way. Using a cowhide robe as his canvas, Mountain Horse drew significant events he experienced during the war. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dempsey explains the artwork as follows:

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reader: Adam Kahpeaysewat <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The drawings are very traditional, using stick figures and symbols to represent certain events and actions. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pictographs on the robe portray both <span class="s2" style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mountain Horse’s Blood culture and his <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">perception of various war events. Tradition <span class="s1" style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">ally, the stories told on these robes don’t have a <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">chronological narrative and are instead listed in order of importance to the storyteller. According to the robe pictographs, one important event to Mountain Horse took place on Aug. 21, 1917, when the 50th battalion of Calgary attacked the German trenches and Mountain Horse was wounded."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">MC: Aakashdeep Mundi <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Few know that approximately one in three First Nations men from across Canada, or a total of roughly 4,000, fought in the First World War <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s sometimes assumed that the Canadian army was just British immigrants but, arguably, by percentage and available men, the largest ethnic group to enlist in the Canadian army was Native. Modern sniping was born amid the muck of the battlefields of the First World War and some of its deadliest practitioners were soldiers from Canada’s First Nations communities. Historical records indicate that Canada could claim eight of the top dozen snipers from all countries involved in the fighting.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">(AV2/Slide#5: Cpl. Francis Pegamagabow)

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">MC: Victoria Welland Shown on the slide is Cpl. Francis Pegahmagabow, credited with 378 kills during his four years on the shell-shattered front lines of Europe. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This Corporal was the most decorated Canadian First Nations soldier of World War One, he was an Ojibwa from the Parry Island Band near Parry Sound, Ontario, receiving recognition for his bravery and effectiveness as a sniper. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Like Many First Nations People who returned from the war he hoped that his sacrifice and achievements on the battlefield would lead to greater recognition and improved living conditions at home. Sadly this was not the case and many basic political, and civil rights were denied them when they returned home <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many Aboriginal veterans, including Francis Pegahmagabow, became politically active in the protection of their communities and the advancement of First Nations rights at home in Canada.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">(AV2/Slide #6:Marion Graham Remembers or Adam family picture)

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">MC: Andrew Owen <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adam Kahpeaysewat a grade 9 student at Marion Graham will along with his father share some of their family history regarding service and sacrifice.

(AV2/Slide 7: Vimy Monuments ceremony at its completion in 1936)

MC: Andrew Owen The Vimy Memorial on the initial celebration in 1936. There were citizens from Saskatoon in attendance. Many cities across Canada had Monuments recognizing the significance of Vimy Ridge to Canadians. When Saskatonians returned from the 1936 initial ceremony they were inspired to ensure that Saskatoon also would have a monument in recognition of Vimy. So in 1937 beside the river and the Bessborough, the Vimy Band Stand was completed.

(AV2://Slide 8:Vimy Band Stand in Saskatoon on River Beside Bessborough 1937//

"At Vimy Ridge, regiments from coast to coast saw action together in a distinctly Canadian Triumph, helping create a new and stronger sense of Canadian identity."

(AV2://Slide 9: Twenty Dollar Bill)//

As stated by a War Veteran of Vimy ridge " We went up Vimy Ridge as Albertans and Nova Scotians. We came down as Canadians."

(AV2://Slide 10: Actual Vimy Memorial at Vimy)//

//MC: Victoria Welland// Today on land granted to Canada for all time by a grateful France, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial sits atop Hill 145.

Norma Thompson a Marion Graham staff member from last year now resides in New Zealand. She plans with her brother and two sisters, to return to visit this historic monument in under two years time. It will then be the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and while there they will be able to pay their respects to their Grandfather and his comrades in Arms. They will not be alone.


 * Breann Steckler**: I am honoured to be one of presently over 40 Marion Graham students that have presently committed to paying their way to travel to Vimy in early April of 2017 to be part of the official centennial ceremony. We intend to learn about Vimy first hand, and to pay respect to those who sacrificed so much for our benefit.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">After all the discussion with WW1 and Vimy Ridge I started thinking about my own family. I had three great uncles who fought in World War 2 and all came back.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">(AV2Slide11) My uncle Jack left to fight in 1940 as an ammunition driver to the front line. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">(AV2Slide12) My uncle Peter left in 1942 as a tanker/ gunman. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">(AV2Slide13) My uncle Bill left in 1943 as a soldier at the front lines.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">(AV2Slide14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once the war ended, my uncles Jack and Peter came back to Saskatoon and my uncle Bill went back to Ontario. In 1977 there was a family reunion back here in Saskatoon. That was the first time all three of my uncles saw each other since the war.

//(AV2: Slide 15: Letter from WWI Death Notification of Mr Gibault's Great-Uncle)//

The slide being shown is the letter officially notifying next of Kin the Death of Mr Gibault's relative in World War I, killed on April 18th 1918.
 * MC: Aakashdeep Mundi**

For soldiers and nurses stationed at the front during the First and Second World Wars, letters were the primary form of communication with loved ones. The following excerpt was written during WWI by the Great Grandmother of last year Marion Graham Graduates Ashley and Erika Kambeitz's.

Reading : Erica Pietroniro

letter dated June 4th, 1915 from Kambeitz's Great Great Grandmother (Louise Brock) to her fiance.

"I am really an awful baby and not a bit brave or good sweetheart as you think. But I, as almost all of the sisters here, would do anything in the world for our soldier boys. We have not been busy the last few days which really is a very great blessing. It has been much quieter along our front and we always keep emptying our hospitals and sending to England to make room for more, and when the wounded are pouring in as they were, it is very heavy work. We admit, clean, feed, dress wounds, give something for pain if they need it, but they scarcely ever complain, let them have a sleep, and the next day all new patients again and so on and on it goes. I am in the operating room, it is a very busy place when the rush is on. We are moving soon nearer up. The Germans will be going back and we will be advancing on. Sweetheart we are as safe as safe really, but if we were not, we are not afraid. We hear of Zepplin raids. We hear airplanes go by and never think of Zepplins. You really get mighty casual. I never go even for a walk after dinner although it is light of course."

The Kambeitz's Great Great Grandparents sent 4 sons to World War I. Only the last, Mack McColl, ever was to return to them. Douglas Chambers McColl - 10th Battalion died April 22nd, 1915 and was buried in Belgium in the province of West Flanders. Edmond Neil McColl - 2nd Battalion died June 15th, 1916 and was buried in France. Lyman Clark McColl - 87th Battalion died September 15th, 1916 and was buried in Belgium in the province of West Flanders.

(AV2/Slide 16: Poppies)

MC: Victoria Welland:


 * McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written and this year marks its hundredth year of existance . It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915. As a surgeon attached to the 1st Field Artillery Bigade, Major McCrae, who had joined the McGill faculty in 1900 after graduating from the University of Toronto, spent seventeen days treating injured men. It had had been an ordeal he had hardly thought possible. McCrae later wrote of it:**

__**"I wish I could embody on paper some of the varied sensations of that seventeen days... Seventeen days of Hades! At the end of the first day if anyone would have told us we had to spend seventeen days there, we would have folded our hands and said it could not be done."**__
 * Reading: Jim Kiehn**


 * Reading: Victoria Welland**
 * One death particularly affected McCrae. A young friend and former student, Lieut. Alexis Helmer of Ottawa, had been killed by a shell burst on 2 May 1915. Lieutenant Helmer was buried later that day in the little cemetery outside McCrae's dressing station, and McCrae had performed the funeral ceremony in the absence of the chaplain. In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious rest time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook.**
 * An eyewitness stated**

(AV2/Slide:17 Poppies with Cross)


 * " The poem was exactly an exact description of the scene...He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. "**


 * Reading: Savannah Rempel**

__"**In Flanders Field's" By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (Born1872-Died1918)**__

__**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.**__

__**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.**__

__**Take up our quarrel with the foe:**__ __**To you from failing hands we throw**__ __**The torch; be yours to hold it high.**__ __**If ye break faith with us who die**__ __**We shall not sleep, though poppies grow**__ __**In Flanders fields.**__

(AV2/Slide#18“Wait for Me Daddy”)

MC: Sarah Craven “Wait for me Daddy” <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">It was a single photograph, but it captured so much about family, separation and the uncertainty of war. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">On October 1st 1940, as hundreds of soldiers marched through the streets of New Westminster, B.C., a five-year-old boy broke free from his mother's hand and ran after his father, who would eventually head off to battle in Europe. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Warren (Whitey) Bernard was that little boy, and his father was Private Jack Bernard.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(AV2/Slide#19 Photo in Newspaper)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">MC: Aakashdeep Mundi <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The photo made the front page of the Vancouver Daily Province the next day, but photographer Claude Dettloff likely had no idea it would soon appear in newspapers across North America, hang in every classroom in B.C. during World War II and grace the pages of Life magazine.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The photo <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is now proudly displayed in the Canadian War Museum. <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">John Maker, Second World War historian at the Canadian War Museum, said the photo touched a public nerve at the time and sums up the war experience. <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He said the photo depicts pride, sadness and the anxiety of what’s to come. The image of the mother letting go of the child and the child trying to grab his father’s hand is symbolic of the links between soldiers and the home front.

<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(AV2/Slide#20 Warren (Whitey) Bernard at 5 and 79)

<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">MC: Andrew Owen <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For Bernard the five year old in the picture, now 79, it’s the memories behind the image that are distinctive. <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“That’s probably the last time we were together as a nuclear family, as they put it today.” <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> “We were never together again as a family after that moment.” <span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">His parents’ marriage didn’t survive the war, they’d split up just a few years later, and there was no joyful reunion between his father Jack and mother Bernice when his father returned to Vancouver in October 1945.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: right;">

__//(AV2: Slide 21Picture of Canadian POW from Hong Kong "The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45 pg.322 photo 38 photo credit; Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada/PMR-79-812)//__

__**MC: Victoria Welland**__ __In order to cope with the harsh realities of war sometimes soldiers thoughts would drift to their fond memories of home. During World War II one of the harshest experiences for Canadian troops occurred in Hong Kong. Private Thomas Forsyth was a Southern Albertan Rancher, he wrote the following in his diary:__

__**Reading Jim Kiehn**__

__**"December 25th 1941...we surrendered to the Japanese and were taken to a POW camp where I was beat up and had my lip cut from a Japanese Seargent for two hours. We are only given one meal a day. I wish I was back at the ranch carrying water for the horses but instead I carry endless dead bodies into a ditch."**__

__**MC: Victoria Welland**__ __The picture on the screen comes from the book:__ __"The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45"__

__**MC: Aakashdeep Mundi**__ __Our next speaker changes our sphere of focus from the Pacific to the Atlantic.__

__//(AV2: Slide 22 Repeat of Slide 1 MGCI remembers or find a slide of bombing in Normandy)//__

__In the summer of 1944 just after Juno Beach and the taking of Normandy the population of Northern France came into contact with the Canadians and their allies. From the letters of Marion Graham student Laniece's great-grandfather who was a citizen of Northern France at that time some of the Laniece's family history will be shared.__

__**Reading Laniece**:__

__This extract from a letter written by Lanieces great grandfather tells about his experience on the night of July 26th, 1944, where he and his family were almost killed in a bomb raid.__ __Nuit du Jeudi 26 Juillet au Vendredi 27,__

__Les enfants étaient montés se coucher tandis que ta maman et moi étions restés dans la grande salle. Les avions furent très actifs passant et repassant sans cesse; vers onze heures, commencèrent les bombardements. Une ou deux bombes tombaient de temps à autres et toujours les avions circulaient, si bien que les enfants prirent peur et descendirent au rez-de-chaussée.__ __Vers II H. 1/2 les filles étaient partis en arrière de la maison, ta maman était devant le vestibule, et moi devant la porte de la cuisine: un avion se dirige vers nous et tout d’un coup nous entendons le vrombissement plus fort du moteur qui reprend après avoir piqué. J’entends soudain le sifflement d’une bombe qui nous tombait dessus... et tu sais c’est une sensation désagréable de sentir cette machine là descendre sur vous pour vous écraser. Entendant donc cette bombe tomber j’ai crié je ne sais plus quoi « Une bombe qui tombe » peut être... J’avais l’intention de m’abriter entre la porte de la cuisine et la grande salle, mais je n’ai pas eu le temps de le faire. L’explosion s’est produite, je me senti projeté et je me suis accroché à cette porte qui elle-même oscillait. Après l’explosion il y a eu une seconde peut-être de grand silence et puis c’a a été le fracas des vitres et des ardoises brisées qui tombaient... Nous sommes sortis, nous nous sommes appelés, ta maman a crié: « la bombe est tombée en arrière, les petites y sont », nous courrons en arrière, les appelons et elles répondent qu’elles n’ont aucun mal... seulement elles avaient été couchées sur le sol par le souffle de l’explosion, au lieu de se réfugier comme elles le faisaient d’ordinaire sous le noyer du pré... et la bombe était tombée à deux mètres de ce noyer, le déracinant et le renversant à moitié.__

__**MC: Sarah Craven**__

__We will be laying three Wreaths today for Remembrance. Rank First Name. Sharp the commanding officer of the Dundurn Military Base.will lay the first Wreath for the Nation and for the Armed Forces. Second Wreath will be laid down by Veteran Title Colin Clay (or Boyes ) on behalf of the Veterans. The Third Wreath will be laid for our School by principal Doug Njaa (or VP Shane Bradley He along with our school administrative representative will be laying the wreath for Remembrance.__

__Please stand for the laying of the three wreaths and the 2 minutes of silence to follow the playing of the last post. Remain standing untill you are informed that you may be seated.__

__Laying of the Wreath...__

__Last Post__

__Moment of Silence (2 minutes)__

Bag Pipes __Rouse__

__You may now be seated**.**__
 * MC**__**:Sarah Craven**__

//(AV2: Slide 23 Picture of the dad of present Marion Graham teacher Ms Lehr, when he was serving as a peacekeeper in Cyprus in the 1960's)//

The picture on the screen is of the dad of present Marion Graham teacher Ms Lehr, when he was serving as a peacekeeper in Cyprus in the 1960's (AV2/Slide 24 Cyprus)
 * MC: Aakashdeep Mundi**

One of the longest peace keeping missions Canada has been involved in took place in Cyprus. Over 25,000 Canadians served for the mission that lasted 29 years, some serving more than once. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO is composed today of 28 individual countries which has grown from its original 12 countries, Canada was an original founding member when it was formed in 1949. Canada has over 125,000 peace keepers who have served in more than 35 countries and currently has many peace keepers deployed around the world.

(AV2: Slide 25:Nathan Cirillo on guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier)

Nathan Cirillo was pesonally known by Marion Graham Students that graduated last year. They knew that he loved his son and girlfriend. He proudly served his nation, and it was an honour for him to stand on guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Nathan Cirillo and all the known, and unknown soldiers he stood on guard for, will not be forgotten.

(AV2/Slide 26: Nathan Cirillo's casket being carried at his funeral)

(AV2/ Slide 27 Wreath and candles at National War Memorial honouring Nathan Cirillo and his life.)

(AV2/ Slide 28: Trudeau and Harper Laying Wreath) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt; vertical-align: baseline;">A couple of weeks ago, on Thursday October 22nd, at the National War Memorial, Canadians gathered to mark one year since a gunman brought terror and death to the country’s capital.
 * MC: Victoria Welland**

(AV2/ Slide 29: Corporal Nathan Cirillo and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet, while the ceremony was punctuated with sadness as Canadians remembered Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo – two soldiers who died within days of each other at the hands of radicalized assailants – there was also strength, compassion and unity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21.3333px;">(AV2/ Slide 30: Cirillo's son being held by his wife) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s been one year,” Gov. Gen. David Johnston told the sombre ceremony. “Many people said Canada changed forever last October. But I don’t think Canada changed forever. Canadians are a caring, courageous people, and that did not change, and that will not change.”

The Marion Graham Mixed Choir in giving tribute to those who have served and are serving will now sing in Latin "the Ground" by Ola Gjeilo. This piece is based on a chorale from the last movement of Gjielo’s Sunrise Mass. It conveys a sense of arrival, of peace, and of grounded strength after a long journey through many different emotional landscapes. This song represents a place of absolute peace, tranquility and relief. Gjielo writes the following about his piece: “music should be used to uplift and remind ourselves of who we really are and what’s truly important in our lives, whatever that may be”. We hope this song reminds you what is truly important in your life.

(AV2/ Slide 31: 4 minute Video)

(AV2: Slide 32:Sergeant at arms Kevin Vickers)

(AV2 Final Slide #33 MGCI Remembers)


 * Ian Finstad and David Sharp:** What Remembrance Day means to them.

Reading: David Sharp <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As some of you may know I am fairly new to this school, this is because my father is in the Canadian Armed Forces and has served Canada for just over 34yrs. I think that because he is in the military Remembrance Day might mean something different to me than it does to you. Remembrance Day is a reminder of the sacrifices that my family and I have had to make, My father goes away for extended periods of time this usually means we will have to pack up and transfer to another city. Relocating is not easy; My family must leave friends and family and all the comforts of home to start all over again. Saying good bye is difficult too, but we do this as part of our sacrifice. To me, Remembrance Day is when we all come together to remember those who fought to protect our country and values. It is also to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefields for our freedom. My father has devoted his entire career serving this country. I am very proud of my Dad and his father and also my Great and Great Great Grandfathers who all made sacrifices during the many war`s. .

Please stand and join in the singing of "Oh Canada".
 * MC:Andrew Owen**

Thank you to all for contributing to the strong tradition Marion M. Graham Collegiate has placed on emphasizing and honouring Remembrance Day. Please remain standing until the veterans and dignitaries have exited the theatre. =Welcome to Your New Wiki!=
 * MC: Sarah Craven**

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