FUTURE generations will continue the legacy of honouring the service, courage and sacrifice of those who served and continue to serve in wars and conflicts.
School children were front and centre at local Remembrance Day services on Monday, observing a minute’s silence at 11am.
It’s a tradition that marks the end of World War I, when guns fell silent on the Western Front on November 11, 1918
The red poppy is also significant to Remembrance Day.
Known as the Flower of Remembrance, red poppies were among the first to flower in the battlefields of northern France and Belgium after the conflict ended.
The vivid red bloom was adopted in England in 1919 as an emblem to honour the dead and help the living, and Australia followed in 1921.
Today, Remembrance Day poppies are worn – on the left lapel – in memory of those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice, and to recognise their acts of gallantry.
The Australian flag was flown at half-mast and poems recited such as the Ode of Remembrance and In Flanders Fields before the playing of the Last Post.
Locals residents, service groups, businesses and schools also laid wreaths at the Kerang and Cohuna Cenotaph.
