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Dear Veteran ,

Thank you for keeping our country safe. I really appreciate what you have done for us.  I also thank you for keeping peace and freedom for our country.  I wear a poppy on Remembrance Day to remember the soldiers who died in war.  I also appreciate how you fought to save our lives.

I  have learned that long ago soldiers came to peoples doors and said they had to come to war.  I also learned that  poppies  were made of red  cloth  and black centres.  John McCrae who was a soldier wrote a  poem called in, “Flanders Fields. ”   He wrote the poem in memory of his friend who died in war.   We wear a poppy  over  our heart to remember the soldiers who died in war. We learned that  the  Peace  Tower in Ottowa  has a Memorial  Chamber  that  holds the Book  of  Rememberance. Each page of each book is turned once a year on the same date each year.  World War 1 came to an end at  11:00 on November  11^th  in 1918.    

Our  Rememberance Day  concert  was on November 7^th  and  we sang, ” Just  One Candle.”  We  made clay poppies  for Rememberance Day.  At the Rememberance Day Assembly a lady from the Legion read a long poem.   I enjoyed the performance of the grade 7’s playing the drums.    I will always remember what  you have done  for us.      

                                                                          Yours Truly,  

                                                                          T.R.