Remembrance Day is the one day a year people take to collectively remember the horrors of war.

Nov. 11 at noon a ceremony for Remembrance Day was held at the cenotaph by the Yates Memorial Centre.

It began with the raising of the colours after military personnel marched the flags in.

As the Last Post began to play there was hardly a dry eye as you looked around the crowd.

Kaylee Michelson found the ceremony to be hard emotionally for her because her father served in Jerusalem for the past year and only returned a few months ago.

“It is always hard when he is sent away and you never know if he will come back,” said Michelson.

She is not the only one who found the ceremony touching.

Margrett Hewlett was also very moved by the service.

“Both my parents served in the second World War, my father worked as a medical officer,” said Hewlett.

Cathy Couch, a Lethbridge resident found the ceremony to be different than she had expected.

“I was confused as to why they played the American national anthem before they played the Canadian anthem. I have never been to a ceremony where there were all three anthems,” said Couch.

Couch also voiced that she liked that there was a prayer read by an active serviceman for the comfort and safety of all soldiers, living and passed.

After the ceremony people dropped poppy’s at the base of the cenotaph in recognition of lives lost in war.