My two grandfathers were both second world war vets out of Nova Scotia.
One was a decorated solider who returned home in a full body cast.
It took Sgt. Jack MacKenzie two years to regain sight in one eye, losing the other, and to learn to walk again after a bullet shattered his femur Easter weekend of 1945.
Watch for ceremonies taking place tomorrow to mark our day of remembrance for all who have made those sacrifices to help us live the lives we do today.
Here are the big local ceremonies…
Remembrance Day at the Halifax Citadel with Parks Canada starting at 11am. A 21-gun salute at the front entrance will be given by the 1st Field Artillery Regiment. Visitors are welcome to tour the Citadel and the Army Museum for free between 10am and 2pm.
Remembrance Day at Sullivan’s Pond. Halifax’s usual Remembrance Day ceremony at Grand Parade has been moved to Sullivan’s Pond in Dartmouth, where the activities of both annual ceremonies will be combined. It begins at 10:30am.
Remembrance Day at Point Pleasant Park at the Halifax Sailors Memorial beginning at 10:45am.
The Hammonds Plains Remembrance Day ceremony will be at the Hammonds Plains Cenotaph at 10:30am.
If you’re in the Bedford area, the community’s ceremony will be happening at Fish Hatchery Park starting at 10:45am.
For those in the Sackville area, the ceremony will start at 10:45am at the Sackville Cenotaph on Memory Lane in Lower Sackville.
My grandfather ‘stopped enemy fire’ as he put it 3 times.
Here’s an article from the Halifax Mail documenting one of those times when he and his cousin both did.
Lest We Forget!