{"id":6271,"date":"2010-11-11T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2010-11-11T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T20:46:04","slug":"brock-holds-remembrance-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/11\/brock-holds-remembrance-day-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock holds Remembrance Day ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6269\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6269\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6269 \" title=\"Remembrance Day wreaths\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/remembranceday2010web.jpg\" alt=\"Faculty, staff and students attended the Remembrance Day ceremony.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, staff and students attended the Remembrance Day ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brock community gathered in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium this morning to pay solemn tribute to Canada\u2019s war veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony included Aboriginal drummers, a bagpipe rendition of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d and readings from Jewish, Christian and Islamic scripture. The event, organized by <a href=\"\/campus-ministries\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Ministries<\/a>, also included a reading of \u201cIn Flanders Fields\u201d and the laying of wreaths.<\/p>\n<p>While war is often debated, \u201cwe cannot doubt nor question the commitment and the courage of thousands of our fellow countrymen and women who lost their lives at an age far too young in the name of the values we all hold dear,\u201d said David Galston, a university chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>President Jack Lightstone said \u201cwe must never lose hope or stop striving for peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows that better than those who have gone to war for us. It matters not one iota that securing peace is hard or peace is elusive or that humanity so easily falls back into aggression. We must honour our veterans and their fallen comrades also by working for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6270\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6270\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6270 \" title=\"Avital Sternin\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/remembranceday2010-2.jpg\" alt=\"Avital Sternin, a representative from the Brock Jewish Students' Association, takes a moment to remember.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avital Sternin, a representative from the Brock Jewish Students&#39; Association, takes a moment to remember.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community gathered in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium to pay solemn tribute to Canada\u2019s war veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}