Veterans' memorial service draws 200 for D-Day anniversary
Last Updated: Monday, June 1, 2009 | 2:07 PM CT
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The 13th annual Veteran's Memorial service drew an estimated 200 people to Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery's Field of Honour on Sunday to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
"The gravity of events like this … helps other people to understand what the veterans went through, what happened during both world wars, and what is still currently happening today," said administrator for city cemeteries Jane Saxby.
Brookside's Field of Honour is the largest and oldest military interment site in Canada. Its significance to Canadian history is underscored by the major facelift it is currently getting.
The Field of Honour, opened in 1915, has more than 12,000 veterans, servicemen and servicewomen, and war heroes interred alongside each other. The public portion of Brookside Cemetery is one of the oldest in Winnipeg, with the first interment done in 1878.
Sunday's service took place in front of the Stone of Remembrance, which is the lone Commonwealth gravestone in Canada.
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