Page 11 - Nov_2018

The Fighter Pilot's Prayer

Oh I have slipped the surely bonds of earth
and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun split clouds

and done a hundred things you have not dreamed
of,
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit
silence.

Hovering there I've chased the shouting wind aloft

and flung my eager craft through footless halls of
Battlefords Remembrance Day Services air.
There will be four main Remembrance Day services for Up up the long delirious burning blue,
the public throughout the Battlefords, all of them I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
taking place on Remembrance Day. where neither lark nor eagle flew.

The Gold Ridge Centre will host a service for Métis and And there with silent lifting mind
First Nations veterans that will be open to the public. I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space
The doors will open at 9:30 a.m. and the service will Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
begin at 10 a.m. Wreaths will be laid at the Veterans'
Monument in front of the casino.

There will be three services held by the Royal Canadian
Legion. Branch No. 349 and auxiliary will hold their
service at Saskatchewan Hospital in the main dining
room at 2 p.m. Rev. Francis Patterson will speak, and
pie and coffee will be available for visitors after the

service.

Legion Branch No. 70 will form a parade at the Legion
Hall in North Battleford at 10:15 a.m. and will march to
John Paul II Collegiate, where a service will be held. The
branch will also hold a banquet that will be open to the
public at 5 p.m. at the Legion Hall.

Legion Branch No. 9 of Battleford will have a parade
forming up at 10:30 a.m. at the Legion Hall located on
22nd Street. The parade will march to St. Vital School
where the service will take place at 11 a.m. The parade
will move to the cenotaph after the service, and lunch
will follow after, at the Legion Hall.