Remembrance Day gives us plenty to think about every year. We’ve been discussing the centennial of the end of the first World War. We have started to learn some about some individual Canadians who served during that terrible conflict. Some were already familiar to us, like Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. We also learned for the first time about some indigenous veterans of Canada’s armed forces, including sharpshooter, Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow.
Thinking about those people, their stories and all the horrors of war make for some pretty serious conversations & thoughts to ponder. It was good to be able to create something that could be part of our act of remembrance. Origami poppies provided a new challenge for our minds & hand while also keeping us connected to the stories and events we have been learning about, balancing our need to remember and learn from the past with our need to look ahead & keep creating the world we want to live in.
I think remembrance day is very important and helps us think a lot but a few question I have are:
why did we even have the war?
how many men had to leave their family and go to war?
why weren’t women allowed to go to war?
I am glad to see that you are thinking about big, important questions. I’m not sure we can find good answers to all of them, but by asking good questions, maybe we will start to change our thinking.
i liked how you added text that makes a huge difference and when you said the end of world war 1 it made me think why did people make world war 2 just to win to take there land or even for nothing
I am afraid there is unlikely to be a satisfactory answer to questions about why wars are or have been fought. Maybe when more people like you start to see that wars come at huge costs, maybe then we will have fewer of them.