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Devo3733 said:At my construction site I asked for some time at the big morning toolbox meeting to read flanders' fields and give a little history lesson about second Ypres and the events that led to the writing of said poem. The first encounter with chlorine gas, breaking of the lines, Canada holding, the Battle of St. Julien, and the recognition and praise it brought Canada as an independant and strong country at the cost of over 2000 lives. I asked people to give some thought to the utter hell those young men faced, the trenches, the artillery, the mud and the cold, all for less pay than any single person in the room pays in taxes.
At 11 I broadcasted Last Post over the site wide radio and we shut down all operations to observe 2 minutes of silence.
Overall it was really good, a lot of the guys in the morning were pretty moved and were glad to learn some of the history of Candians at war and what led to the poem so many know, but don't know much about.
Well done.