A break in the stormy weather helped bring hundreds out to Remembrance Day ceremonies in Sechelt and Nanaimo Wednesday morning.
Rev Ian Nestegaard Paul delivered the prayer and some brief remarks in Sechelt, reminding people that, “War brings human beings into terrible conflict, (and) one of the most terrifying things about war is how it brutalizes and dehumanizes.”
Paul left the crowd to contemplate the thought, “… as we remember this day, and honour those who gave the supreme sacrifice in defense of our freedoms and peace, let us remember what it was they fought for, and let us not forget that innonce and truth die on both sides of a line of battle.”
2015 also marks the 100th anniversay of the writing of the poem that’s become one of the main elements of the ceremonies in every community; In Flanders Fields. Â The poem led directly to the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance in Canada and the Commonwealth.
