Melfort gathers to pay tribute to those who served at Remembrance Day ceremony

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“It’s a day that we visit with the community and make sure that everybody has the opportunity to remember those who have gone before us and made big sacrifices,” Graham said. “Not just those that lost their lives in conflicts…but also those who came back and worked hard to make the communities what they are today.

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Graham said they visited four schools and two seniors’ homes in the community as part of the Remembrance Day program, and said the services were also very important to them. He said reaching the youth is important to help bring about international peace.

“It’s the generations that are going to come after us that are hopefully going to succeed at that,” said Graham. “In some respects, we never want to go back to what was going on 50 or 80 years ago, we want to move forward and get better understanding in this world.”

According to Graham, the more we can pass onto the youth, the more they can influence Canada’s role within the world going forward, and perhaps have Canada influence other nations in the future.

While much of the Remembrance Day ceremony is focused on the sacrifices made by service members in the two World Wars, and to a lesser extent Korea, Graham said Canada has had many important international assignments throughout the years that warrant recognition.

“We’ve been involved in peacekeeping efforts and peacemaking efforts, starting from the late 1940’s in the Middle East,” Graham said. Those efforts carried to conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Nov. 11 also marked the end of the Legion’s poppy campaign, with funds raised going to veterans in need. Graham said there are many recent veterans of some of those campaigns that desperately need help, and the donations help those veterans.

“We pay out a lot of the community’s money to support these guys that went off and made sacrifices and have come home and are having troubles.”

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Cam.lee@pattisonmedia.com

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