Steve S.

When I was a kid we lived down the street from the York Cenotaph at 2677A Eglinton Ave West and this was back when you got the day off of school to attend the remembrance ceremonies which my brothers and I always did. The attendance by WW1 and WW2 veterans and the formal ceremony of the laying of the wreaths (which would remain for several weeks afterwards) and pipe and drum band plus the reading of "Flanders Fields" always made us feel the loss and sacrifice that those being commemorated had made. Beside the cenotaph is York Memorial High School which was built to help deal with the great loss that survivors were struggling with. I hope that memorial lasts forever given the symbolic importance of its meaning.