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FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 15 • 2019
Students from John McCrae High School plant 75 tulip bulbs at the Barrhaven Cenotaph during Barrhaven’s Remembrance Day service. The tulips were a gift from the Netherlands Embassy in Ottawa. For a full photo album of this year’s Barrhaven Remembrance Day service, visit the Barrhaven Independent Facebook page. CHARLIE SENACK PHOTO
Community joins veterans in emotional Barrhaven Remembrance Day service By Charlie Senack
As Canadians all across the country paused at 11:00 am on November 11 to remember those who served, hundreds packed the cenotaph outside
John McCrae High School for the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony. It was a day full of emotion as local residents gathered to remember our fallen, and celebrate those who are still fight-
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ing. It’s been over 100 years since World War l and 75 years since World War ll, but the day is still a very important one on the calendar. The day is important for people like Nick Hebert,
a Barrhaven resident who joined the military in 1999, and was stationed over to Afghanistan in 2006 as a vehicle technician. While there he encountered first hand how war was destroying people’s lives,
and as a result developed PTSD after coming back home. It wasn’t until 2010 Hebert was diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder, and said it took that long because
he didn’t recognize the signs right away. There was still a strong stigma around it at the time, he says, something that has somewhat gone away in recent years.
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