Saturday June 6th is not only the 65th anniversary of D Day, it also is Veterans Commemoration Day at the Billy Bishop Home and Museum in Owen Sound.
Museum Manager Mary Smith says this is an annual event to remember what our veterans did during two world wars to keep Canada Safe.
She says this is another chance to thank our veterans other than on the traditional day of remembrance on November 11th.
The day begins with a parade of veterans including a colour guard and a number of cadets to the front of the Museum where there will be a review.
There also will be an address by Barb Uttley, a female veteran about the role women played during the wars.
Following that Smith says there will be opening of the Museum’s newest exhibit, Women in History.
Museum Curator Mindy Gill Sitoski says this exhibit examines the important role women played in both the first and second world wars on the home front while their husbands and sons were overseas.
She says many time the valuable contribution these women made to the war effort is often often over looked as people tend to focus on what happened in Europe.
Smith says its a coincidence this years event occurs on the same day as the anniversary of the D Day invasion.
She says the Veteran commemoration day is usually held on the first weekend of June because that is close to the time that Billy Bishop won his Victoria Cross during the First World War.
