WINNIPEG - November 4, 2008 – Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery is inviting schools to visit and remember the more than 10,000 war veterans interred in its Field of Honour.

This week schools and the public can sign up for tours of the Field of Honour in order to learn more about the veterans buried at Brookside.

"In the week leading up to Remembrance Day," said Cemeteries Administrator, Jane Saxby, "veterans are available to meet with the children to tell their own stories and to allow the children to ask them questions. It’s an interactive learning opportunity for the students.”

Brookside Cemetery is home to Canada's second-largest military interment site. The Field of Honour is the burial place of war veterans, peacekeepers, merchant marines and other military service men and women from both world wars, as well as the Korean, Vietnam and other wars and battles. The Field of Honour also contains some very significant military monuments, including the only ‘Stone of Remembrance’ in Canada.

This year Scouts Canada has placed 10,000 Canadian flags along the roadside throughout the Field of Honour. This, coupled with the flags and poppies left on each interment site in the oldest section of the Field of Honour by the visiting school children, presents a very moving scene of youth acknowledging the meaning of Remembrance Day.

Schools interested in taking a tour can contact Brookside Cemetery at 311 or 311.