{"id":81716,"date":"2022-11-07T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=81716"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:01:04","slug":"brock-to-mark-indigenous-veterans-day-remembrance-day-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/11\/brock-to-mark-indigenous-veterans-day-remembrance-day-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to mark Indigenous Veterans Day, Remembrance Day this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Members of the Brock University community are encouraged to take time this week to observe two important days of remembrance.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">On Tuesday, Nov. 8 for Indigenous Veterans Day, Canadians are asked to reflect on the legacy and service of First Nations, M<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00e9tis and Inuit <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Peoples to Canada\u2019s war and peacekeeping efforts.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">On Friday, Nov. 11 for Remembrance Day, Canadians will pay tribute to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Military Police who died serving Canada during times of war, conflict and peace, and honour those who continue to serve the country today. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brock students, staff, faculty and librarians are encouraged to reflect on the service, courage and sacrifice of all veterans at home, around the world and across generations. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A Remembrance Day gathering will be held in Brock&#8217;s Ian Beddis Gymnasium on Friday, Nov. 11 beginning at 10:45 a.m. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lynn Wells, Brock Provost and Vice-President, Academic, will deliver opening remarks. In addition to a moment of silence at 11 a.m., the ceremony will include traditional Indigenous songs, a bugle and pipes, the singing of <em>O Canada<\/em>, the reading of the poem<\/span> <em>In Flanders Fields<\/em> <span data-contrast=\"none\">and the placing of wreaths in front of the Brock cenotaph. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:396}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The University community is invited to visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">brocku.ca\/remember<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, which includes information about the two national days of remembrance, the program for the Remembrance Day gathering on Friday, Nov. 11, and links to local Remembrance Day ceremonies in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock University community are encouraged to take time this week to observe two important days of remembrance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7,6833,1],"tags":[4226,12150,9661,667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81716"}],"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=81716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81865,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81716\/revisions\/81865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}