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2,000 attend Aldergrove Remembrance ceremonies

Community pays their respects to all the lives lost to war

At least 2,000 people turned out to pay their respects at the 2018 Aldergrove Remembrance Day ceremonies.

Many hundreds lined Fraser Highway as the piper led the parade to the cenotaph while the highway was closed to regular traffic.

The Fraser Blues formation flying team flew over the cenotaph twice, while the Legionnaires, military personnel, RCMP, firefighters led the parade, followed by the young army and sea cadets, scouts, brownies and others.

Members of the Fraser Valley Community Winds orchestra performed the music as the assembled crowd joined in the national anthem and the hymn, O God Our Help in Ages Past.

Pat Brady read the poem, Why Wear a Poppy and the chaplain, the Rev. Paul Guiton, told of how the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand led to the horrors of the First World War with the resulting millions upon millions of both military personnel and civilians dead in four years of fighting.

The Armistice was signed exactly 100 years ago on Remembrance Day, yet many wars have broken out since that time, with many more millions of dead.

The chaplain then read out a prayer of remembrance, A Tribute to the Fallen: “They shall not grow 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 shall remember them.”

Following the reading of the Benediction, dozens of wreaths were laid at the cenotaph and hundreds of poppies were placed on them by the assembled crowd.

Following the service the assembled crowd was invited inside the Legion Hall and Lounge for food and socializing, along with a performance by the Fraser Valley Community Winds Orchestra.

New this year, the community was invited to the service at the St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church, which concluded at dusk with the ringing of the church bells one hundred times, to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War 1 Armistice Day.

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New this year, the community was invited to the service at the St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church, which concluded at dusk with the ringing of the church bells one hundred times, to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War 1 Armistice Day.
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