Joshua and I participated in our town's Remembrance Day ceremony. We met the other Cubs and Leaders from our pack at St. Vital's Church around 10:15 a.m. It was windy and chilly, but no snow! All the servicemen, cadets, fire fighters and Scouts/Guides lined up, and we marched through town to the Town Office where the memorial is. The boys did their best to keep up with the real cadets and soldiers. Here's a picture of the sea cadets marching.
Here's our little troop, with our Akela, Carole Hudson. We were standing next to some very well ordered air cadets, who set a great example for our young boys.
Here come the sea cadets! Very impressive to small boys. Josh now wants to be a soldier.
Each community organization got to place a wreath on the memorial. Then all the ordinary citizens placed their poppy on one of the wreaths. There was a trumpeter who played the reveille, and our MP Mike Lake spoke, and our Mayor, Camille Berube. It was cold, it was long, the sound wasn't always great, but we asked the boys to remember it was nothing compared to what our troops go through on a daily basis.
Lest we forget......
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