TIG EBERDENE, CANADIAN VET ONCE AGAIN DID A BEAUTIFUL REMEMBERANCE/VETERANS DAY CEREMONY FOR ALL TODAY AT GEORGETOWN. PICTURES AND THE SERVICE BELOW. THANKS ALL WHO ATTENDED AND FOR THEIR DEVOTION TO THE VETS.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
[12:01] Tig Eberdene: TIG: Good morning. I would like to take this moment to welcome everyone to our Remembrance Day 2024 service here in Georgetown. Please be sure to have sounds on and voice for myself up high enough to hear me well. Some parts I will be doing over voice.
[12:02] Tig Eberdene: If you have music or media on please make sure it is off.
[12:02] Tig Eberdene: This year, we have incorporated the United States Veteran's Day as well. Many people online are not Canadian so I made the decision this year that as neighbours and allies, we will celebrate together.
[12:02] Tig Eberdene: Across Canada, in the United States, and in many other countries, people gather on November 11 to honour the courage and devotion of brave men and women who made the supreme sacrifice of dying for their country.
[12:03] Tig Eberdene: The hostilities of the First World War ceased on November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m. the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
[12:03] Govega Sachertorte: wow
[12:03] Tig Eberdene: The following year they marked the first observance of a day to remember and honour those who died, as well as to give thanks for the sacrifices of those who came back from serving their country.
[12:04] Tig Eberdene: Since then, Canadians have fought in other conflicts and many have given their lives so that we might enjoy freedom today. They too should be remembered.
[12:04] Tig Eberdene: Americans remember this day, Veterans Day, as one of reflection for the staggering loss of life during World War I, and to salute those currently serving in the Armed Forces of their nation.
[12:05] Tig Eberdene: At a time of rising tensions and conflicts across the globe, we must never forget that in the end those who stand up to tyranny do so at the risk of never returning to see their loved one. No one desires to go to war, but if one must they will put all their energies, talents and souls into defeating the aggressors, and returning home unscathed.
[12:05] Tig Eberdene: In May 1915, one of Canadian Dr. John McCrae's closest friends and comrades was killed in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium. He was buried in a humble grave with a simple wooden cross.
[12:06] Tig Eberdene: Wild poppies bloomed between the crosses marking the many graves. The next day, unable to help his friend or any of the others who had died, Dr. McCrae gave them a voice through this poem:
[12:06] Tig Eberdene: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
[12:07] Tig Eberdene: Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
[12:07] Tig Eberdene: On January 28, 1918, John McCrae succumbed to pneumonia and meningitis. He died not knowing the outcome of the war but with a full understanding of the cost of it.
[12:07] Tig Eberdene: Before he died, Dr. McCrae had the satisfaction of knowing that his poem had been a success. Soon after its publication, it became the most popular poem of the First World War.
[12:08] Tig Eberdene: It was transla
ted into many languages and used on billboards advertising the sale of the first Victory
Loan Bonds in Canada in 1917.
[12:08] Tig Eberdene: In part because of the poem's popularity, the poppy was adopted as the Flower of Remembrance.
[12:08] Tig Eberdene: The symbolic poppy and John McCrae's poems are still linked, and the voices of those who have died in war continue to be heard each Remembrance Day.
[12:09] Tig Eberdene: As we remember the fallen, and those lucky enough to have come home and survived times of war, let us bow our heads. I would ask that you say a silent prayer, in whatever way you wish, to honour all these brave men and women.
[12:11] Tig Eberdene: Last Post- Please observe two minutes of silence
[12:11] skari cheri: beautiful!
[12:11] Govega Sachertorte: wow
[12:13] Tig Eberdene: Act of Remembrance:
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
[12:13] Tig Eberdene: As we gather to remember, we will place our wreaths at this cenotaph to honour all of our brave heroes.
[12:13] skari cheri: cool fly by!
[12:14] Tig Eberdene: Our wreath layers will now lay their wreaths at the foot of the cenotaph.
[12:14] Govega Sachertorte: For My Father WWII Vet WIlliam Fischer and Holocaust Survivor RIP
[12:15] Emili Riley: I dedicate this wreath to the memory of my uncle, Lloyd Vanover who fought in Vietnam.
[12:16] Raimy Dakota: I dedicate this wreath to the brave men and women of the American and Canadian Armed Forces. This day is our chance to remember them and remember it was for us, they chose to put themselves in harms way.
[12:17] Tig Eberdene: Dakota please come forward to place your wreath
[12:17] Dakota Steel: I dedicate this wreath in memory of a wonderful man in our family who served bravely in the front lines of WW2 ,always loved,never forgotten
[12:18] Joshua 7: This is dedicated to Judy Deines, Uncle Robert, all Israeli soldiers fighting for peace, and my Lord and Savior, who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
[12:18] Tig Eberdene: Thank you so much. Wreath bearers you may return to your seats
[12:19] Tig Eberdene: It is my duty, and my honour to encourage all to remember each year at this time all those who sacrificed for our freedom.
[12:19] Tig Eberdene: We have been blessed to live as free people in this world.
[12:19] Tig Eberdene: During these unprecedented times with so much hatred, confusion, wars and threats from one country to another, we are unsure of where these things will lead us.
[12:20] Tig Eberdene: We need to remember that standing together to fight all evil is the only way we can survive.
