(11 Nov 2024)
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Ypres, Belgium – 11 November 2024
1. Devon Fire Brigade Band marching under Menin Gate
2. Mid of attendees at event
3. Wreaths on floor
4. Ypres Surrey Pipes and Drums band marching
5. Officer standing in front of crowd
6. Band marching
7. Wide of attendees watching parade
8. American ambassador to Belgium Michael M. Adler and Irish Ambassador to Belgium Kevin Conmy placing wreaths on memorial
9. Various of wreaths
10. Women wearing poppy dresses
11. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Fouron Lieve, attendee:
“I come here every year to commemorate all that happened 100 years ago, for all the young people who sacrificed their lives for us and this is something that I am trying to pass on to my children.”
12. Wreaths
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Debby Eisen, Honorary Naval Captain of the Canadian military:
"I am impressed to see how the Belgian government has honoured our veterans and treated all veterans of the First World War. I am a 36 veteran myself of the Canadian Forces and being here is unbelievable”
14. Menin Gate with Indian Veteran association marching
15. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Vergans Ghislain, attendee:
“We cannot forget that so many people from foreign countries actually gave up their lives for us. As the Brits say (in English) ‘Lest we forget’, we will never forget.”
16. Band marching through Menin Gate
STORYLINE:
Veterans, officials and locals attended an Armistice Day ceremony on Monday in Belgium to mark the end of World War I and the millions killed, with conflict once again present on the European continent.
Veterans as well as the American and Irish ambassadors to Belgium laid wreaths under Ypres’ Menin Gate, where some 55,000 names of soldiers whose remains were never found are engraved.
““I come here every year to commemorate all that happened 100 years ago, for all the young people who sacrificed their lives for us and this is something that I am trying to pass on to my children," said parade watcher Fouron Lieve.
Debby Eisen, a Canadian honorary Naval Captain and a veteran of 36 years she was impressed by how Belgium had honoured veterans
World War I pitted the armies of France, the globe-spanning British empire, Russia and the United States against a German-led coalition that included the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.
AP video shot by Hervé Verloes
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