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| L.D. Kirkaldy of Terrace’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13,
led hundreds of marchers from numerous community groups
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. TERRACE — Under grim wintry skies, in gusting Ve
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winds seeded with pellets of flying snow, hundreds of
Terrace area people gathered on Remembrance Day to
honor Canadians who died fighting this century’s wars. ”
7! The assemblage filed with muted voices into the
Tillicum Theatre, occupying every seat and overflowing
into the lobby as the Terrace Community Band played
hymns, reflective anthems, and military dirges. Captain
John Harker and Reverend Lance Stephens offered up
prayers for both the living and the dead; Bob Fisher,
president of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13
delivered a message of solace to veterans, and Pat Hall
spoke a lament against the depredations of war.

Outside again, the parade remarshalled for a final
journey through the centre of city to the cenotaph in
front of city hall. The solemn line moved slowly to the
muffled thump of drums and the keening voice of pipes
as snow swirled around downcast faces and tramping
feet, Around the cenotaph, young members of the 747th
Air Cadets in thin full-dress uniform stood still and
silent as monuments themselves, unshaken by the bitter
blasts of air.

One after another, the representatives of many
organizations came forward to lay wreathes at the base PRs senovas
of the stone reminder. The cruciform memorials of | i!
flower and leaf trembled like living things in the wind.

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Michael Kelly photos