KENTVILLE, N.S. — “At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.”
These lines from the poem For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon still resonate more than a century after they were authored.
As in other communities across Canada, the sacrifices of the men and women who bravely served their country in times of war were honoured at a Remembrance Day service in Kentville on Nov. 11.
Representing the Royal Canadian Legion Kings Branch No. 6, Greg White presided over the Remembrance Day service and wreath laying ceremony in Kentville.
“Today, we pray for those men and women who have in their military service sacrificed their time, their strength, their ambition, health, and yes, even their lives on this earth to benefit friends, known and unknown,” White said.
Hundreds of people converged on the cenotaph at Memorial Park for the service. Led by a colour party, members of the Royal Canadian Legion Kings Branch No. 6 marched from their hall on River Street.
The Salvation Army Band played, and Deborah Gauthier sang hymns as part of the service. Ed Coleman played his composition “Ortona” on the bag pipes. Mayor Sandra Snow and Kings County councillor Pauline Raven spoke to the gathering and dozens laid wreaths of remembrance.
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