By Kevin Gilby

The Royal Canadian Legion Davidson Branch #51 held its Remembrance Service at the Davidson Community Hall. The service was well attended, with approximately 180 paying their respect.
Comrade Mary Jane Morrison emceed the program. Piper Nate Linsley, returned for the second year from the Saskatoon Police Pipes and Drums, accompanied the Parade of Colours with Green Hills of Tyrol. Parade Marshall was Captain (Rtd) Wayne Morrison, CD.

The service included recognition of 100 years of service of the Royal Canadian Air Force. An insert was included in the program, listing members that served in the RCAF from Davidson and area.
A special presentation was Your Loving Sun, a stage play produced by Comrade Clark Puckett based on real-life correspondence of brothers in service in Halifax and abroad, and the parents at home in small town Saskatchewan.

The play was adapted by Puckett from the collection of George King’s correspondence entitled Your Loving Son – Letters of an RCAF Navigator.
The characters read aloud their letters back and forth between family members detailing the yearning for a connection back home to the familiar farm life, the simple wants of essential items, and the growing reality of the fears of those in service.

“Those letters leading up to his death kind of present a close family, close brothers, a very loving relationship on a small family farm in a thriving little village at that time,” said Puckett. “It painted a picture of loss that was probably more evident even after the play, at the loss of George at only 21.”
The play may have been about one family, but it represented what could be anyone’s story whose name is imprinted on the cenotaph.

Lest we forget.