Cenotaph ceremony marks Remembrance Day in Lethbridge – Lethbridge
Tons of 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 passed off 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 (will be) possibly 20 years previous in the event that they’ve already served their nation,” stated Michael Cormican, president of the Royal Canadian Legion Normal 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 yr Remembrance Day actions have been scaled down in Lethbridge because of the COVID-19 pandemic, however this yr’s ceremony noticed a considerably bigger turnout in comparison with the cenotaph ceremony in 2020.
“I hope everybody will try to meet not less than one veteran immediately and say ‘thanks’ to them,” Cormican stated.
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