‘Our community has not forgotten’: Melfort remembers amid pandemic

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“Our community has not forgotten,” Robins told northeastNOW. “We average about 1,200 who come to the actual service, and it’s great that over 1,000 people viewed within minutes after it was over. It was fantastic that people got online and watched it and took those moments to remember those who fought hard for us to give us what we have today. I think the feeling and remembrance was still there. I don’t think anything was lost in those moments.

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“I was talking with the president, Comrade Jim Graham, and he was very excited there were so many views. We were talking about how great that was and how good it makes the Legion members feel,” he said. “Our friends at the RCMP and fire department that came out and stood at the cenotaph at 11 o’clock out in the snowy cold and stood guard during the ceremony. That meant a lot for the legion members and all of us.”

One of Robins’ main pieces he touched on in his speech was the role of a stretcher bearer in the first and second World Wars; they’d help the people who are hurting and alone, laying in the battlefield calling for help. He said it relates to the coronavirus pandemic, how there are people who may be stuck in their homes and can’t have any visitors, who are calling for their “stretcher bearer” to be a part of their lives and help them through the pandemic.

“Our love is what sets apart,” Robins said. “Not just loving with words and speeches, but with action and truth. Taking the love that God has given us as stretcher bearers and sharing that, picking others up. Our challenge was to go out and be that stretcher bearer for somebody in the community, to reach out and love not with just words, but with action and truth.”

Despite the challenges amidst the pandemic, Robins hopes residents can take time out of their day to remember the fallen comrades that have gone before them.

“Those who died in war, they gave their tomorrow so we could have our today,” he said.

The entire Royal Canadian Legion, Melfort No. 30 Remembrance Day ceremony can be viewed online.

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