Veterans Week November 5 - 11, 2025
- SaugaSports
- Nov 4
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 7
Honouring our Veterans
November 5 - 11 is Veterans Week
November 8 is Indigenous Veterans Day. The First Nations, Inuit and Métis people of Canada have a long and proud tradition of military service to our country.
November 11 is Remembrance Day. Ceremonies
are being held at locations across our city.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
John McCrae
In Flanders Fields is one of the most famous poems from the First World War. Canadian doctor and soldier John McCrae wrote this poem on 3 May 1915.
