OTTAWA – As the last echoes of the Peace Tower bell drifted over the downtown core, thousands stood in silence around the National War Memorial to remember the country’s 114,000 war dead.
The silence began and ended with the boom of an artillery piece on Parliament Hill
With Gov.-Gen. David Johnston, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other dignitaries looking on, a bugler sounded the mournful notes of the Last Post and a piper skirled a lament.
A pair of CF-18 jets growled overhead, followed by seven Griffin helicopters.
The national ceremony of remembrance was mirrored at hundreds of other local cenotaphs across the country and at ceremonies around the world.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay took part in a final Remembrance Day commemoration at Kandahar, Afghanistan, the airfield from which 158 dead Canadians began their final journey home over the last decade.
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