This Remembrance Day, the Crestwood community gathered together to commemorate those who sacrificed their tomorrow for our today. The assembly included moving musical contributions from the senior music classes and the Crestwood Voices Chamber Choir. The Oral History Project shared two documentaries from Canadian veterans who shared their war-time experience. Crestwood students were fortunate enough to receive an address from Major Andrea Keeping, a veteran of peace-keeping missions in Afghanistan, Cyprus and Kuwait. Major Keeping described why she joined the Armed Forces, the difficulties brought on by times of conflict and the importance of remembering as a cultural practice. The ceremony included a recording of the late Leonard Cohen’s moving reading of the poem, “In Flanders Fields,” and was punctuated by a moment of silence.
