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for Remembrance Day, a litte Leonard Cohen...
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11-11-2018 09:52 PMI might have to show that at the beginning of my classes tomorrow, to give my students a little 'context'.
Originally Posted by bambam1729
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11-12-2018 05:51 AMtell them it's a bit of poetry that all Canadian kids learn (or, back in the day, used to) in elementary school.
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11-12-2018 12:54 PMWow, very powerful stuff.
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11-12-2018 08:25 PMI did. They were pretty quiet for some time afterward. Originally Posted by gh
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11-12-2018 10:05 PMI dont know how much McCrae was influenced by it but here it is:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos
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11-11-2019 11:13 PMI learned it somewhere in school, in the US, but I have no recollection when. Could have been elementary school, or college, or somewhere in between. But it is a poem one always remembers and is always moved by. Originally Posted by gh
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