'They mustn't be forgotten': Winnipeggers salute veterans, fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day
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Antin Sloboda says Remembrance Day is about giving thanks to generations of men and women who "have answered the call to serve our country."
"Each sacrifice is imprinted in the fabric that shapes the identity of Canada, and thus, cannot be forgotten," said Sloboda, 17 Wing chaplain, at the Monday service at Winnipeg's RBC Convention Centre — the province's largest Remembrance Day service.
"Today is a time to remember that life in Canada as we know it is not a given, it is a fruit of the struggles and sacrifices of the past."
As war rages in Ukraine and the Middle East, Sloboda said this year's Remembrance Day is for Canadians to affirm their determination for peace.
"Let us remember with gratitude the thousands of Canadians who choose today to serve Canada before themselves."
It's been 10 years since the end of the mission in Afghanistan, 60 years of peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, and the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
It has also been 80 years since D-Day, which marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
On D-Day, some 14,000 Canadians landed at Juno Beach, in German-occupied France. More than 4,400 Allied troops died that day, the beginning of the bloody 77-day Battle of Normandy and the start of the liberation of France.
"Living in their greatly favoured land, Canadians often seem all too ready to forget that great events ... let them develop and prosper in freedom," Capt. Gabriel Boucher, the master of ceremonies, said at the beginning of the service at the convention centre.
"Many even fail to remember that young Canadian men and women played a major role in the greatest seaborne invasion of all time, the allied assault on Normandy on June 6, 1944."
Veterans know the price paid for Canada's freedom, Boucher said.
"Thank you for your service, both in times of peace and in the face of war," he said.
"Here in Canada and across the globe, your dedication and sacrifices have not gone unnoticed."
A wreath-laying ceremony followed the playing of The Last Post, a minute of silence at 11 a.m. and the reading of In Flanders Fields.
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