Steinbach Regional Secondary School held their Remembrance Day Ceremony Friday morning.

Vice-Principal Kim PoirierVice-Principal Kim Poirier says Remembrance Day holds significance for her as her husband has served in the RCMP for 24 years and knows the importance of what he does for his community and for Canada.

Poirier explains the ceremony with the students is an opportunity to come together as a group and show they support Canadian troops and other individuals who stand up for our country. She adds the recent events in Ottawa make the importance of Remembrance Day a little more real.

“It certainly brings it home. Having that tragedy happen in our country makes us reflect that we need security in our lives, it's one of our basic needs. Knowing that we have so many great people doing that for our country, it does make that a little more special today to really reflect on those who help us have the freedom we have in Canada.”

Private Mac Ginter-Boyce17-year old Mac Ginter-Boyce is an untrained Private at the 38 Signals Regiment in Minto Armory in Winnipeg. He says Remembrance Day is a time to look back and see all the sacrifices men went through during wars from WWI, WWII, Korea, the wars in Afghanistan, Bosnia, all the peace keeping operations in Africa and paying tribute to those men for what they have done and continue to do.

Private Ginter-Boyce notes he always wanted to do something with his life and felt this was the right thing to do adding he will be transferring to the Regular Force to be a full-time solider. He also notes the events in Ottawa brought the reality of war a little closer to home.

“Usually Canada has been known to not really want to be involved in a lot of things. But from what I've seen in school people's attitudes have changed from that to saying, maybe we should be doing something to help the world and make it a better place.”

Poirier adds they also took part of the ceremony to commemorate the 100 years since the beginning of WWI.

SRSS Chamber Choir