Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD try who have died for her in every war are gathered to- gether in the arms of a nation's love. It may come to pass tha? November 11 will become the All Saints' Day of Can- ada. Man is the only created being who lives in the past, present and future. He is not a beast of the field who wails the loss of his progeny from vague sense of primordial pain. Even before Christ he believed he was not made to die. So, we kindle our lamp of remembrance not only for this our own shrine. It is joined with the lights of other nations in the bright cluster of the faith in the spirit of man. Then there is the mystery of the Unknown Warrior. It is the mystery of who he may be that fascinates the mind. Your neighour or mine, Canadian, Australian, Scotsman or Londoner? He may be any one. Taken from a grave which had a name or from a name- less resting place in No Mlan's Land. It is this that holds us wondering. But really we would rather not know. A name would bind him to a few. Nameless, he belongs to us all. Identified, he would have one mother. Now he is every mother's son. Without ribbons or honours he has all honours. With- out title or rank he ranks above royalty. Without the prejudice of a name he assumes the style of every man. He is the flesh of our flesh and the kinsman to us all. He is the own brother to every honest nobody in the English-speaking world, and his honour is the Crown re- served for those who are faithful unto death. It is the significance of the unique ceremony that holds us by a spell. The unknown warrior is a type of many men and a symbol of many things. He gathers to himself all the memories of the unre- turning brave. He receives all the victories brought at so great a cost. He relieves the grief of countless mourners. He is a symbol for this and succeeding generations of youths' generous offering and the ruthless sacrifice of war.

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