Peterborough Examiner, Sept. 2010 - The process will begin in the early morning hours in Montréal as the first flatbed truck gets fitted with two massive granite boulders. Another truck will go through the process an hour and a half later, and then another, until all 12 rocks are en route to Peterborough. As the first truck enters the city, a crane will be in place in the parking lot of the Armouries, ready to put each rock, weighing between 15 to 20 tonnes, into place. Once set, the series of black granite boulders will make up the long-awaited Veterans Wall of Honour memorial in Confederation Square, commemorating the service of some 11,000 veterans from the city and county who returned home from the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War.
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This day dawned bright and beautiful beneath a delft blue sky and warm October sun. This was a day to enjoy the company of family and to give thanks, both for the bounty at our table and to the nation-builders before us who fought on foreign soils, defending humanity against aggression. This was the day, twelve black granite boulders were officially unveiled behind the Cenotaph in downtown Peterborough. Two men, my grandpa Cecil and his brother Clarke are among 11,000 names carefully etched in stone. This day, we honoured them.
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| Lest We Forget - The Cenotaph at Confederation Park |
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| Proud - The Colour Guard begins its march from the Armouries to the Cenotaph |
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| Respect - Two minutes of silence, the Last Post, God Save the Queen and O Canada |
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| We honour them. |
6 comments:
Very touching...
Have a nice Thanksgiving Liz.
May we never forget.
Very nice, and a perfect day for it.
Thanks Wendy. Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
Anonymous - may we never forget.
It was a beauty day, Dorito. Paper says there were about 2500 people there. Not bad at all. Enos knew the piper from Trent. He piped the Maple Leaf Forever as the covers were pulled from each stone. Beautiful.
It's very important to remember the past, although sadly we don't seem to learn a lot from it. And I loved the letter in your last post, it gives the people behind the name a personality, it makes them more real somehow!
Thanks Mara. One of the things I like about the letters is that they seem so everyday - as if he was running into neighbours at the store rather than on a battlefield far away.
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