This is a message from our archives, a Remembrance Day message Siegfried Bartel gave in 2001. Siegfried Bartel now lives in Abbotsford and celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2015. Siegfried grew up in Prussia (now part of Poland) but being a man of German descent Siegfried enlisted in the German Army in 1937 before the Second World War began. When the war erupted in September 1939, he found himself in an army that eventually brought horrors to others. Events that happened in the war and after convinced Siegfried that pacifism was the only sane response to killing and war.