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Remembrance Day Words and Music

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In 2009, it’s easy to forget how we gained all this hard-earned freedom, the freedom that motivated Voltaire to say, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

I was thinking about this freedom the other day when I read, again, the story of the “Donkey Bloggers”. They are, by name, Hadnan Hajizade and Emin Abdullayev. They are Azerbaijanis who, in September of this year, angered their government by posting a satirical video on the internet in which they interview a donkey (one of them sitting at a table in a donkey costume) which praises the government of Azerbaijan for its positive attitude towards donkeys. Hajizade and Abdullayev are in jail and currently on trial for their internet video. Some will know that press freedom in Azerbaijan is almost non-existant. Meanwhile in Canada and in many other western nations, we luxuriate in the ability to say what we like, for or against those in power.

These freedoms came about not without incredible effort, including sacrificing the lives of thousands of our citizens to safeguard our freedoms against those who would take them away. This included fighting some horrible wars against tyrants; World War One, World War Two, Korea, and now the terrorists who would deny us our freedoms in the 21st century. Remembrance Day in Canada is on Wednesday, November 11th and we at Double Exposure Radio are asking all of you to spend some time remembering the sacrifices of many to allow all of us, including Double Exposure, the freedom, amongst others, to satirize and parody without fear of prison or death.

With this in mind, we have produced our tribute to those who have given of themselves, and, often with their lives, to preserve these freedoms. What you will hear is a 45 minute tribute in words and music; words, mostly, not much heard these days, and music, not often associated with Remembrance Day. This comes from our hearts, the children of parents who offered up their lives in war for what we enjoy today.

We hope you appreciate the words of the poems and the songs, as we do. 

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Here is a list of the words and music you will hear:

• Music-“An Epitaph to War” soundtrack by James Horner from the film “Glory”
• Poem-“I Have a Rendezvous with death” by Alan Seeger-1917
• Poem-“Any Woman to a Soldier” by Grace Ellery Channing-1918
• Music-“The Minstrel Boy” sung by Chor Leoni
• Poem-“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson-1854
• Music-“We Will Stand Together” (Based on Variations on an Original Theme-Opus 36, Nimrod) sung by Russell Watson
• Poem-“Nefarious War” written by Li Po-750 AD
• Music-“Many Rivers to Cross” sung by Annie Lennox
• Poem-“Sunset Vigil” written by Andrew McFarlane-2001
• Music-“Little Island” sung by Elton John from “Faust”
• Poem-“The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy-1915
• Music-“Brothers in Arms” sung by Celtic Thunder
• Poem-“Not to Keep” written by Robert Frost
• Music-“Over the Rainbow” sung by Harry Nilson
• Poem-“The Soldier’s Dream” by ‘Mr. Campbell’-1804
• Music-“Feels Like Home” written and sung by Randy Newman
• Poem-“Aftermath” by Siegfried Sasoon-1919
• Music-“In These Times” sung by Joan Armatrading
• Music-“Hymn to the Fallen” from the movie “Saving Private Ryan”-John Williams
• Poem-“In Flanders Fields” written by John McCrae; poet, physician, author, Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, who died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, January 28th, 1918, while commanding No. 3 Canadian General Hospital on the battlefield.

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