Gananoque student 'write' stuff in Legion poetry contest
Posted Mar 4, 2010 By EMC News
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EMC Events - During the period around Remembrance Day, all Legion branches host poster, essay and poetry contests in the schools in their areas. 
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Harold Hess, principal of Linklater Elementary School, left, congratulates Grade 4 student Zachary Glover, after he is presented with a framed certificate by Legion Branch 92 president Cliff Weir in recognition of his first place finish at the District G level for his Remembrance Day poem Lest We Forget.
Recently, Branch 92 in Gananoque learned that Zachary Glover, a Grade 4 student at Linklater Elementary School in Gananoque was awarded first place at the District G level for his Remembrance Day poem Lest We Forget.
Zachary's accomplishment is quite extraordinary as he competed against students from the more than 100 schools represented by the 62 Legion branches in District G, which includes all of the cities and towns in eastern Ontario from the Quebec border east to Belleville and north to Pembroke. He received a certificate and a small financial prize for his winning efforts. He now will compete at the Ontario Command, which involves almost 400 branches and well over 1,000 schools.
One of the most famous poets during the First World War was Canadian Major John McCrae who wrote In Flanders Fields and who began the war serving in the same unit as Major Russel Britton of Gananoque.
Zachary's contest submission is as follows:
Lest We Forget
Lets all remember a November day
Every person takes a poppy to lay
So very carefully at their graves
To remember all the lives they saved
When we hear the last post played
Each person thinks of the sacrifice made
Forever we will cherish what they gave
On November 11, we remember the brave
Rest in peace, their graves all say
Good men and women died on that day
Even though many years have passed
To tell our children will make their memories last.
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