The Start Of My Remembrance Day Art And Posting For 2009

(My special piece of art for Canada's Remembrance Day has come along way)

(I know when I went out for a bit, Harpobama's saboturing idiots messed with my art during another illegal enterance into my apartment, it is my art nobody else's, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for industrial sabotage, my Quebec Police camera watches over my property)

Today is a very special day for Canadians through out the Country, as we take time to remember our fallen soldiers of past Canadian war efforts, present war efforts, and also take time to reflect on the sacrifices that are made by men and women of the Canadain Armed Forces, along with their families and loved ones, to preserve our borders and its integrity, past peace keeping efforts through out the World over the years, and their commitment to duty on the war against terrorist/extremist with an arsonal of weaponry. I spent my time for the 11 hour in a moment of silence at my favorite war memorial, while standing at attention I went into a form of transcendal meditation going into my thoughts with my eyes closed, reflecting on what our Country has been through out its war history and how men and women have served our Country with such dedication over the years to maintain the democratic process bound by the laws of our constitution and the rights and freedom within that document, that make us the proud Canadians that we are.

While at the war memorial that I spent my 11 hour at today, I wrote down the words that are inscribed on the stone monument, then picked up a Maple leaf on my departure from the park, and stuck it in a precious book of mine, while thinking of creating something special as an Artist/Writer for Remembrance Day. I then went by the library at Concordia University here in Montreal, and looked up Canadian war history in certain books to find some chosen words, thus I put something very special together as a presentation to honour our Canadian Troops, past and present, which is as follows:

"HONNEUR

A  CEVX QVI

SONT TOMBES

AU

CHAMP D'HONNEUR" 

REMEMBRANCE

DAY

2009

IL Y A PLUS

The War Memorial Commensurates Service Persons Starting From WWI

The War Memorial Was Erected After The Korean War

_____________________________________________

From the book "The Canadian Front In France and Flanders" by Ralf Frederic Lardy, published by A. and C. Black, Ltd. London,1920; I found the the words by Scott Marmion which are as follows:

"Sober he seemed, and sad of cheer

Yet deem not in his thoughtful eye

Did aught of do stand terror lie;

More dreadful far his ire

Than those who, scorning danger's name,

In eager mood to battle came,

Their valour, like light straw in flame,

A fierce but fading fire."

Furthermore in another text called, "The Great War As I Saw It" on Canadian war history wrtitten by Canon Frederick George Scott C.M.G., D.S.O., 1st Canadian Divison,C.E.F., published by F.D. Goodchild Co, Toronto, 1922., I found a section of the Canon's written words and took an excerpt from it while he was in attendance in the Cathedral at St Omer, "...restful to sit in it and meditate looking down the long sides and Arches....one morning when the sun was flooding in the building and casting the colours of the windows in rich patterns on the floor...read Shelley's great elegy... remembered those wonderful last lines...my mind was carried far away, beyond the anxieties and sorrows of the present,...'To where the soul of Adonais like a star beacons from where the eternal bode are,'

In closing of quotes:

"Carry the word to my sisters,

To the Queens of the east and the south

I have proven faith in the heritage

By more than word of the mouth.

They that are wise may follow

Ere the world's was trumpet blows:

But I-I am first in the battle,

Said our Lady of the snows."

By

Rudyard Kipling

(stand by for the ending of this posting, I have worked all day and it is after midnight)

Little closing note: The art work for this posting is not finished yet, in special honour of Tim Hortons, that support our Troops with coffee at the front in Afghanistan, I made the brown water colour out of recycled Tim Hortons coffee grains, as our past Military Artists scraped to put together pigments to record WWI & II in art form. I used other simple organic materials today Nov 12th to make other shades of water colours as I carried on creating my special piece of art that I started on Canada's Remembrance Day 2009.