Tillsonburg remembers
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Tillsonburg's Remembrance Day ceremonies began Monday morning with a Silent Walk from Veteran's Memorial Walkway (corner of Rolph and Bridge Streets) to the cenotaph on Broadway, followed by the reading of In Flanders Fields. Members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 153, and 153 Vanavair Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, paraded to the centotaph, followed by a Remembrance Day Service, which included the laying of 37 wreaths and The Last Post. At the conclusion of Monday's service, hundreds of participants attached their poppies to a memorial cross -- "We Will Remember Them."
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.