Local veteran wants more veterans to attend Kitchener's Remembrance Day ceremony
Nov 9, 2026
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Do you attend Remembrance Day ceremonies?
Well, a local veteran is calling on more people
to attend the ceremony in downtown Kitchener this year,
specifically veterans.
Be proud. Show.
It's a time for the community to show their gratitude to you personally
when you're in the parade.
Our numbers are dwindling, I'll give you an example.
There's only 3,691 World War II veterans alive in Canada.
And they're in their 90s and 100s, so they can't march anymore.
So it's up to the other generation,
not my age, but the younger generations,
to come up and step up and say, hey, let's have a parade.
Remembrance Day is so, so important,
not just for the country, but for the community itself.
So when you can stand there and listen to the Last Post of the Lament.
Reveille, if that doesn't touch your soul,
there's not very much that can, you know.
And the two minutes of silence we ask is nothing,
nothing to what the soldiers and sailors and airmen gave to us.

