Koforidua, Nov. 11, GNA - Remembrance Day service in honour of the fallen heroes of the first and second world wars was held at the Koforidua Jackson's Park on Thursday with 10 surviving ones in attendance.

The parade was made up of 250 men drawn from the Police, Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), Immigration, Fire, Prisons and the first Infantry Battalion (IBN) from Tema under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Sedro. At exactly 1100 hours a siren was sounded to signify the end of the Second World War from 1939-1945 and to remember the gallant men who fought in the two wars. The Binyon verse was read by a veteran, Mr Macdonald Boateng.

In an exhortation, the Chaplain of the IBN of the Ghana Armed Forces, Reverend Father Thomas Anan-Forson, used the occasion to entreat Ghanaians to speak words of peace in all their endeavours especially this time that the nation was approaching Election Day. He said the peace of God was already with us but "it is left unto us the people of Ghana to speak words that are profitable, responsible and pleasant to the ears of our listeners and words that bring hope and encouragement to the weak".

Rev. Fr. Anan-Forson, therefore, urged politicians whose words could "make or unmake the nation" to always have a prepared speech during political campaigns.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Affram-Asiedu, the Commanding Officer of the IBN Lt Col. Ebo Gaisie, the Regional Chairman of the Veterans Association of Ghana (VAG), WO1 Richard Ntow and Nana Kwasi Adakwa Abesimhene, of New Juaben laid wreaths in remembrance of the departed heroes.