Remembrance Day

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Mr. Toney discusses the meaning of Remembrance Day for him and encourages others to explore the significance of the poppy and of the Armistice.

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It means that I lost a lot of good people, friends and people that I knew, lived with for four or five years, and they won’t be coming back there. They’re there to stay, but they fought for a good reason. So I’m proud of them. Yeah I’ve laid the wreath, the second year now, up in our little community for, for the guys that didn’t come home and for those who survived and are around yet. Yeah, I think that’s a good tradition they got going. More people should attend things like that, but you’ve gotta read about these things, not, not just think about them. Like you actually don’t know what, what a dead soldier is. Like, you think well, it’s a dead man, got over there and got shot and he stayed there. They don’t think of his reason for being there. Why he died. Why you’re living a good life now and you’ve got nothing to worry about home. Like the majority of people don’t think that. They don’t know. They’ve never been taught that much in schools or anywhere. It’s a few, a few have it. Their dad’s been in the war or something like that, their mother. But they should learn more about it and then they’d understand the reason for these things Armistice, poppies and things like that.

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