Why Remember?

Canadian veteran Reverend William Thomas was today's Remembrance Program guest speaker. He asked a simple question. "Why remember?" His answer was that we should not live in the past but have the past live in us. When one generation fails to pass on information the link is often lost.

He went on to tell a story about Ian Robertson Wares who falsified his age at 16 to join the forces for WWI. He was found out and sent back to school, but two years later joined the Lord Strathcona Regiment. He was sent to France with the cavalary and was part of the last cavalary charge of any war. Modern machine guns cut the regiment to pieces and Ian Wares was killed. His story was forgotten until the age of the internet when it came to light again. As Reverend Thomas was telling this story his voice broke several times. It was not until the very end of his talk that he told us this was his nephew and that his son was named after him.