Remembrance Day for 4 Year Olds

I was a little nervous that the school's version of November 11th might differ significantly from my pacifist tendencies. For example, there is a Canadian Forces poster on the Remembrance Day bulletin board that looks like a recruiting poster to me. But, from what I can gather, the school assembly focused mostly on peace, the impact of war on families, etc. The twins even came home with the story of Sadako Sasaki and her origami cranes.

Two exceptions (and the school is probably responsible for the first, but definitely not for the second!):

1. The kids are insisting that Canadian soldiers are always the good guys and their job is to tell everyone to "drop their guns". Wouldn't that be nice.

2. Jacob: "There's one good thing about war. Poppies grow when there's a war."

EDIT:

Subsequent to this post, the twins came into the kitchen where I was making a coffee.

M&J: We learned a song at school about the soldiers
Me: How did it go?
M&J: The soldiers went to war, the soldiers went to war, they went to war and died for us, the soldiers went to war
J: But they didn't die for us. We didn't tell them to go to war
M: We should make a better song
M: How about, "The soldiers went to war, and they didn't die." That's a better song.
J: It would be better if it was "The soldiers didn't go to war, they didn't go to war, they didn't go so they didn't die, they didn't go to war"

We appear to have survived the school system for another day!