Halifax Students Commemorate Veterans with No Stone Left Alone Ceremony – Halifax | The Canadian News

Ahead of official ceremonies at cenotaphs across the country for Remembrance Day, Gorsebrook High School students participated in a special commemoration for fallen veterans.

This is the school’s fifth year participating in the ceremony.

The No Stone Left Alone ceremony takes place across Canada to ensure every fallen soldier is remembered. In Halifax, students lay poppies on the graves of 1,546 soldiers buried in Fort Massey Cemetery, a military cemetery.

Gorsebrook Junior High principal Mark MacPhee says the students took the time to learn about the veterans who are buried at Fort Massey and that coming to the cemetery provides students with a hands-on experience.

“By coming to the cemetery, putting names and faces on the lives that were lost in hopes that they will honor the memory a little more deeply through that experience. And this afternoon they will participate in a reflection activity through what they learned and felt through this experience today, ”he said.

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Karen Furneaux, an honorary lieutenant colonel who works with youth and cadets, says the experience is a way for students to reflect.

“I think it is very important to engage young people in the conversation about freedom and help them think about what it took to get here and what it took to maintain freedom in our country and around the world,” he said. Furneaux.

This year, there are 83 No Stone Left Alone ceremonies taking place across Canada and there are two international ceremonies in Poland and the Netherlands.

“It’s part of a global movement and that global citizenship is one of the things that we talk about, and allowing us to connect with those other ceremonies in Canada is really important to show them that they are part of a larger movement,” he said. MacPhee.