Cenotaph ceremony marks Remembrance Day in Lethbridge – Lethbridge
A whole lot turned out in downtown Lethbridge on Thursday for a Remembrance Day ceremony on the metropolis’s cenotaph.
It was certainly one of two native occasions to honour Canada’s veterans and the women and men who proceed to serve within the armed forces.
The opposite ceremony came about on the metropolis’s Mountain View Cemetery.
The cenotaph service was organized by the native Legion.
“Many individuals consider a veteran as somebody previous with gray hair. They’re not. A veteran (may be) possibly 20 years previous in the event that they’ve already served their nation,” mentioned Michael Cormican, president of the Royal Canadian Legion Basic Stewart Department No. 4.
A stretch of 4th Avenue South, east of Stafford Drive, was closed to visitors to permit for social distancing on the ceremony.
It’s the second straight 12 months Remembrance Day actions have been scaled down in Lethbridge as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, however this 12 months’s ceremony noticed a considerably bigger turnout in comparison with the cenotaph ceremony in 2020.
“I hope everybody will attempt to meet at the very least one veteran at this time and say ‘thanks’ to them,” Cormican mentioned.
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