Despite high winds and a smattering of rain, many attended the moving Remembrance Day Veterans’ Memorial ceremony at Saugeen First Nation.
Veterans and supporters paraded to the Monument where the colours were posted, followed by Chief Conrad Ritchie performing an Honour Song and Pastor Gord Mitchell reading a scripture in addition to the 23rd Psalm.
The men of Saugeen have served in many conflicts including, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Viet Nam War, Persian Gulf War, Somalia War and Irac-Libya War, in both the
Canadian and American Armed Forces.
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For the first time, banners of the many young men who went to war from Saugeen First Nation, lined the streets.
Among them, there were also those who joined the 160th Bruce Battalion.
At the ceremony, students from G.C. Huston public School sang the National Anthem and Christine John performed the American National Anthem.
Mia Roote, Miss Saugeen 2024, read the now-famous ‘In Flanders Fields’ written by Canadian Colonel John McCrae from World War I. Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War where approximately one million soldiers from many countries were wounded, missing or killed in action.
She also read ‘A Commitment to Remember’….
They were young, as we are young,
They served, giving freely of themselves.
To them, we pledge, amid the winds of time,
To carry their torch and never forget.
We will remember them.
While the many wreaths were laid, the women’s drumming corps performed softly in the background.
