Remembrance Day in Lethbridge; thought provoking presentations
LETHBRIDGE — “The act of Remembrance, is as much about you, as it is about the fallen – this is a special day, and I would even say a sacred day and what makes something sacred is sacrifice. In fact, in Latin, the word sacred means something is sacred because of the sacrifice made for it to become so.”
Those words were a small portion of the presentation Major Robert Mein spoke to those assembled at the Exhibition services and the Lethbridge cenotaph on Monday, as he thanked veterans. He noted the theme of the day was, of course, remembrance, and he hoped to relate things that were perhaps new and original while possibly brining some insight.
Major Mein asked those assembled to think back to the movie “Saving Private Ryan” and one of its last scenes.