N.B. news: Students write letters to veterans [Video]

Just days ahead of Remembrance Day, a Grade 5 class at Salisbury Regional School in New Brunswick were entrusted with an important task.

Each of them wrote a personalized note as part of a Veterans Affairs Canada initiative called “Postcards for Peace.”

“‘Postcards for Peace’ are a promotion through Veterans Affairs Canada that encourages students to participate in the Remembrance Day Ceremony by writing a short, brief thank you or remembrance for things that they understand about what has happened in their past,” explained teacher Krista Ingrahm-Cote. “It’s so important to have this generation participate because it connects them to our past and it helps them to understand why we live the beautiful life that we live in Canada, so when they understand that it makes so much more community involvement and community connection for them.”

The postcards are anonymous, except for first names, and will eventually make their way to veterans …