Remembrance 2006

[dewline]

I'm heading off to the War Memorial downtown in a little while.

I'll see you when I get back...

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Remembrance

[themoo37.livejournal.com]

Good on you!

At my synagogue this morning, veteran among us spoke a piece. Then he led us in a prayer using a very old Jewish prayerbook given out to Jewish soldiers by the military. Then we all said kaddish (a standard mourning prayer for dead relatives) together for all the fallen soldiers. I had tears in my eyes, and I wasn't the only one.

Re: Remembrance

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For me, it was a couple of hours in the wet, grey outdoors. Plenty of good company, including someone I suspect of being a journalist I thought I recognized...but I'd be hard-pressed to name her at the moment.

It's pretty much as I've said on occasion how the main service here in Ottawa should go: just enough of a taste of what it was like in the trenches on that last horrible day before the Armistice was signed in 1918.

One should not feel comfortable attending such a thing as this, I think. You might share a joke between friends or even strangers. But never feel physically comfortable...not until after it's done.

Maybe not even then...