The following is the Chaplain's Message and Prayer for
      a Remembrance Day Cenotaph Service as delivered by Pastor
      Lloyd Strickland in 2004 in Clearwater, BC.  The order of
      service is the same in every community in Canada and can
      be found at Cenotaph Service Outline 

MESSAGE AND PRAYER                                - Padre (Legion Chaplain)

Canadians have long remembered their fallen by building monuments such as 
this, cenotaphs is the traditional term.  Reading the inscriptions on these 
as one travels from village to village and city to city in this great land, 
provides the viewer with a special insight into the emotions that come to 
the surface as we struggle to pay homage to those who died to preserve our 
freedom.  Today is our opportunity to remember. We remember: we remember 
the images: ships tossed in the air by explosions, we remember men falling 
beside their friends... we remember telegrams coming to the doors of 
neighbours, husbands never to return; sons and daughters whom were loved 
and lost. We remember with pain, but we remember....so that their sacrifices
 will never be taken lightly nor forgotten.

Let Us Pray
Loving God, as we gather here today our hearts are full of memories of 
friends, comrades, and countrymen who served under arms in wars fought for
freedom. We come to remember those who fell in battle and those who, while 
they did not die, offered their bodies, hearts, and energies fighting for 
a better world.  We ask Lord that you would grace us with your presence, 
that you would help us in our pain, and that you would hear our prayers 
and have regard for our thoughts this day. Bless us and bless all those 
who gave the best of themselves for our country  we ask it in Jesus' name. 
AMEN.

    
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