During the sixteen years I did not attend that ceremony I would go to the outdoor service in the nearby town.
In recent years I have noticed more and more people drinking Tim Horton’s coffee during the event. I suppose there’s nothing as comforting as sipping on a hot double-double during the reading of, In Flanders Fields. Hey Buddy, would you like a Boston cream or a walnut crunch do-nut to go with that coffee?
On my way to the ceremony last year I passed a fellow who smiled and said, “Happy Remembrance Day.”
Noooo … You’re missing the point!
I wonder what he takes in his coffee.
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Gary Caines is a retired teacher. During his 32 year career he taught in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and in private and public schools. He has been a principal, vice-principal, district supervisor and, something of which he is quite proud, has taught at least 1 course at every grade level – yes, that includes kindergarten.
Over the years he has served as Aide-de-Camp for three Lieutenant Governors and retired as a navigator from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He directed and produced school musicals and coached rugby at four different high schools (he was still playing the game at 58). He is a recording artist, a past-master of the Masonic Lodge and, for ten years, served as a volunteer ambulance driver. He has climbed mountains in BC and been bitten by mosquitoes in Labrador. He has backpacked in Europe and sung in Irish pubs. Gary has sailed from Halifax to Thunder Bay and return.
He once taught a class in Appenzell, Switzerland and twice performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Oh, and something else of which he is proud, he has two beautiful children and three incredibly beautiful grandchildren.
He has a lot of stories to tell.
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