lest we forget
it is remembrance day. for the past week we have all been wearing our poppies, and today, i went into sebastian's classroom and talked to 2N about remembrance day, and the importance of remembering our glorious dead.
we talked about the corn poppy, war memorials, and the world wars. at one point, it got very interesting, as the japanese children in the class said, "and then we bombed hong kong and lived here! yay japan! yay japan!" and then a couple of the boys said, "yes, but then we beat you."
it was different giving a speech that didn't include enemies, or idiologies, because at age six, they don't understand those concepts, they understand goodies and baddies.
it was also difficult, when i was talking about how the war was tough for women and children because they didn't see their husbands and daddies for five years, a little girl put up her hand and said, "that is like me. my daddy died three years ago. it is very sad."
we talked about Flanders Fields, freedom and how brave people were to fight to give people they had never met, US! a wonderful life. i talked about my grandad. my gran. i heard about great grandparents who worked on farms (a great gran), a great grandfather who didn't die in the war.
is your freedom worth a minute of silence and respect to say thank you?
