Crowds gather at cenotaphs in Ottawa and across eastern Ontario to mark Remembrance Day
............At Beechwood Cemetery, the National Military Cemetery, military members and their families and friends marked Remembrance Day by paying tribute to those who died giving their lives to service. "There are many people here I served with in the Armed Forces.
As a chaplain, I buried some of them here. So I feel a connection to them, their families and to the country," said retried Lt-Col. Donald Maclean.
"It's a kind of a special, solemn time." Kathleen Code brought her late father's medals to the ceremony. "To honour our father, to honour the memory of all his friends that he lost during the War and after, his service to his country and how much he loved Canada. And that was so important for him, even at a very young and tender age,"
Code said. "My father was in Burma, which is not very talked about other than the ones in Europe," said Code's brother, retired Master Cpl. Michael John Brennan. "I was in the Navy first and I switched to the Air Force and I worked in the same squadrons he participated in the Second World War."