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Remembrance Day and Our Dying Christian Heritage
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Remembrance Day and Our Dying Christian Heritage

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by on Nov 11, 2016 in Featured, Government & Politics, History
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School children rose from their desks to stand for two minutes silence in memory of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in two World Wars. We children stood tight-lipped and gazed at the Red Ensign flag at the front of the classroom. Every creak, children shuffling and even slight noises from the school’s ventilation system […]

Memorial Day
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Remembrance Day

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by on Nov 11, 2014 in Featured, History
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There is an old country graveyard near the town where I live. For years the small Clearwater Cemetery was all but forgotten and neglected. In the middle of that graveyard lies the forlorn grave of a young soldier who died six days before the end of the First World War. The decrepit fence surrounding the […]