For paramedic care scholar Nicholas Lamoureux Remembrance Day ceremonies have particular that means.
“Nicely I’ve had plenty of household who’ve served within the armed forces over time,” he stated.
That’s why Lamoureux, who goes to John Abbott School, joined lots of on the faculty’s Memorial Discipline for his or her annual Remembrance Day ceremony to pay tribute to individuals who served within the armed companies, and particularly those who perished.
“It takes a particular sort of particular person to place up that sort of sacrifice to your nation for hundreds of thousands of individuals you don’t even know,” he advised World Information following the ceremony.
The school’s ceremony was held one week earlier than Remembrance Day which falls on Nov. 11.
It wasn’t simply school college students who went to say thanks. MacDonald Excessive Faculty in addition to Edgewater and Dorset elementary faculties additionally took half.
“It’s simply an incredible alternative to acknowledge our veterans and to acknowledge the sacrifices that had been made,” Mike Stewart, principal at Dorset, identified.
He stated it’s one strategy to train college students not nearly these sacrifices, but additionally to assist them be taught in regards to the previous.
“It’s necessary to show them the historical past of why wars occur and why we need to keep away from going to warfare sooner or later,” he stated.
The ceremony was private for among the college students like 13-year-old Katherine Lindsay, a Grade 8 scholar at MacDonald Excessive Faculty.
Being there delivered to thoughts her father and grandfather, each of whom she stated served within the Canadian Armed Forces. Her grandfather who was deployed to the Korean Conflict advised her his warfare tales.
“It makes me really feel unhappy that he was the one certainly one of all his mates that survived,” she defined, “but additionally makes me joyful that he did one thing helpful on the earth.”
Phoenix Rodrigues, a Grade 6 scholar from Dorset Elementary, doesn’t need to undergo what her grandfather did as a soldier. He additionally served within the Korean Conflict as a Canadian servicemember.
“I simply don’t need one other warfare to occur once more,” the 11-year-old stated.
Neither does Lamoureux.
Nonetheless, he desires to comply with within the footsteps of his uncles and nice grandparents and join service in Canada.
“As a medic with the armed forces to hold on the custom,” he smiled.
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