Fanshawe’s annual Remembrance day ceremony returned in person for the first time since 2019. Fanshawe’s D courtyard once again served as host for the ceremony as a crowd of faculty, students, military members and family made there way out on a cloudy Friday morning.
The turn out of locals was supported by dozens of international students and faculty many of them taking in their first Remembrance day ceremony. Murillo Tamburus is from Brazil and is part of faculty at Fanshawe and mentions how his grandfather served in WW2.
“It is important for me to be here to remember him and to learn more about what he did.”
Tamburus was among many other internationals taking in the ceremony and says that it is great to see so many others taking in the cermony and learning about what Remembrance day means to Canadians and the history behind the day.
“If I choose Canada as my home country its not that I feel obligated to learn more about this but I feel like I should learn about the history and culture of not just Remembrance day but the traditions of many other events Canadians celebrate”.
The ceremony was overseen by Fanshawe president Peter Devlin with help by members of the armed forces including a read of Flanders Fields by a student of Fanshawe who is also enrolled in the military.
The last post followed with two moments of silence and the laying of the wreaths to conclude the ceremony.
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