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A parade of 230 security personnel and members of the Veterans Association of Ghana (VAG), marked the 64 Remembrance Day celebration in Koforidua on Wednesday. November 11 is set aside as a Remembrance Day and wreath laying ceremony for soldiers who died in the First and Second World Wars. The day was also to remember soldiers who died on peace-keeping operations. The Police and the Army bands provided music for the security personnel who were drawn from the Prisons, Police, Fire Service, the Army, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and the Immigration Service. After the pouring of libation, Christian and Moslem prayers were said for the souls of the departed soldiers. Reverend Father Thomas Annan Forson who led the Christian prayers urged Ghanaians to lead good lives so that when they died they would be remembered not for their evil deeds but for the high level of performance they exhibited during their life time. He expressed the hope that the world would be united so that wars would no longer be experienced. Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, laid the first wreath on behalf of the government and people of Ghana, Major Samuel Owusu, of the First Battalion of Infantry (IBN), Michel Camp, Tema, laid the second wreath on behalf of the security services. Mr Ntow Odei, Eastern Regional Chairman of the VAG, laid the third wreath on behalf of the association with Daasebre Professor Oti Boateng, Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, laying the last wreath on behalf of the people of the region.