Rant!Vancouver

Please find time the morning of November 11th to attend Remembrance Day Ceremonies in your area. The City of Vancouver’s 2006 Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held on:

Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 10:10 a.m.
Cenotaph at Victory Square
West Hastings Street, between Cambie and Hamilton

These ceremonies, which include a wreath laying to honour those who gave their lives in the service of our country, will mark the 61st anniversary of the end of World War Two, and the 88th anniversary of the First World War Armistice.

The prelude at the Cenotaph will begin at 10:10 a.m. with a performance by the Vancouver Bach Youth Choir. The official program begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by two minutes of silence at 11 a.m., and the placing of wreaths at the Cenotaph. A parade of veterans, ex-service personnel and the Canadian Armed Forces will then move west on Hastings Street and march past the saluting base at Seymour and Hastings, where the Premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell, will take the salute. On the platform with the Premier will be the Mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan.

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.

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.
- John McCrae

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