Remembrance Day program Hoogkerk – Westerkrant

Saturday May 4, 2024

7.30 pm Be present at Bloemenmozaiek to wait for the guests:

Master of ceremonies Tineke van den Berg and members of VNFH

7.48 pm Forming the procession

7.50 pm Ring the bells and walk in due course to the monument

7.55 pm Installation around the monument

7.56 pm Poem by Hoogkerk resident

7:58 PM Stop chiming

7:58 PM Trumpeter

8:00 PM Two minutes of silence

8:02 PM Trumpeter (Wilhelmus 1 verse)

8.04 pm Laying of wreaths/flowers by the VNFH board, board members of the Hoogkerk Historical Association, municipal representative/national May 4/5 committee, councilor Eelco Eikenaar and municipal councilor Hans de Waard. The flowers are presented by members of a scouting group, the Woudlopers Kipling

8.06 pm Children from primary schools read a poem. After reading, they lay a flower at the monument

8.15 pm Poem by Hoogkerk resident

8.20 pm Closing by Tineke van den Berg

Afterwards, interested parties lay flowers to the sound of the snare players