Released on November 6, 2013
Premier Brad Wall laid a wreath this morning at the Saskatchewan War Memorial in Regina as part of the government’s annual Service of Remembrance for the Public Service.
“Today we remember the sacrifice of thousands of men and women from across our province and Canada: citizens who have served nobly and selflessly in conflicts, peacekeeping and reconstruction missions around the world,” Wall said. “Remembrance is our willing obligation, an obligation that has spanned two world wars and the Korean War as well as more recent conflicts such as the struggle in Afghanistan.”
The remembrance service took place in the rotunda of the Legislative Building. This year’s service gave special recognition to the final rotation of troops in Afghanistan, to civil servants who have served in that conflict and elsewhere, and to the 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. The federal government earlier designated 2013 as the Year of the Korean War Veteran.
The Saskatchewan War Memorial is located on the Legislative grounds just west of the Legislative Building on Memorial Way. It lists the names of Saskatchewan’s fallen from the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, peacetime and peacekeeping operations, and the Afghanistan mission.
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For more information, contact:
Bob Ellis
Intergovernmental Affairs
Regina
Phone: 306-787-2709
Email: robert.ellis@gov.sk.ca