Remembrance Day

Tomorrow, let us all take a moment to remember why we live in one of the best and most free nations.

Photo: Infantrymen of the SD&G Highlanders aboard a Buffalo amphibious vehicle in Germany, February 11, 1945.

Last Friday's home game for the CCHL2 Alexandria Glens saw a Remembrance Day ceremony held, recognizing our veterans.

France October 4, 1916: “I am getting heartily sick of this whole business, it is awful the slaughter of men. I think the whole world is crazy. I often wonder why I am left so long.”

Those lines are from a letter John Albert Ferguson wrote home while fighting in the trenches in World War I.

Excerpts from this compelling correspondence are published in the November 8 edition of The News.

The Apple Hill Remembrance Day ceremony will be held Sunday, November 5, with a parade leaving the fire hall at 11:45 a.m. and a wreath-laying ceremony taking place at noon at the cenotaph.

A schedule of Remembrance Day ceremonies is published in the November 1 edition of The Glengarry News.

In one of his first official public functions as new Member of Parliament, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Francis Drouin placed a wreath at the war monument in Maxville Saturday.