Browsing Tag: Memorial

August 5th, 2015 marks the three-year anniversary of the shooting inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. On that tragic day, six people lost their lives, and four others were injured when Wade Page opened fire on a sunny Sunday morning. This weekend, memorial events are planned to honor the victims who lost their lives in this shooting.

IT is not widely known that almost a million Indians fought on the side of Britain during the First World War. ...in the year that the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, the Sikh community in Derby has decided to pay its own tribute.

An 8 feet high bronze statue of a turbaned Sikh soldier - highly decorated officer pilot - the late Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji DFC., is to be unveiled in Gravesend (UK). It will be one of a rare few such statues outside of India.

Jathedar Baba Surjit Singh ji did Akaal Chalana (left for the abode of Akal Purakh)... in Patiala jail. This brief obituary cannot do justice in describing his life, achievements, and more importantly their love and divine presence that was beyond words.

Members of Preston’s Sikh community paraded through the city centre in remembrance of those who fought in the First World War. The free family event included live martial arts, children’s activities including a bouncy castle, as well as food, ice cream and arts and crafts.

To commemorate the two-year anniversary of the horrific mass shooting at a Gurdwara, the Oak Creek Sangat is organizing the Chardhi Kala 6K Memorial Run and Walk to be held this Saturday, August 2, 2014.

Roads were closed down by police to allow riders to drive together towards their final destination. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has backed calls for a memorial in Woolwich to honour the murdered soldier. “It is important to send a message to terrorists.”

In accordance with his last wishes, Yogi Bhajan's ashes were immersed at Kiratpur Sahib on January 11, 2005, during a ceremony that began at 2 pm.

Beside his grave old glory waved, For his country his life he gave, Staring at his name etched in stone, He gave all and is not alone, ...

Interfaith Memorial Service at the Sikh Gurdwara (Temple-Acton Road in Indianapolis with beautiful messages of kindred assurance, unity, peace, and harmony from so many faith and civic leaders, and law-enforcement officers was an illuminating, moving and memorable experience.

A year after tragedy, Ruby and Rumita have found renewed hope in humanity after witnessing first-hand the strength that can rise from the ashes of destruction.

On the one year anniversary of Oak Creek, in the midst of news of increasing violence in our country, may we share in the spirit of everlasting optimism – and hear the call to serve.

The sangat at the gurdwara was in the true spirit of chardi kala. I found the atmosphere to be spiritually uplifting.

But as we reflect on the meaning of this tragedy one year later, we can choose to focus on what we do know for certain: the beauty of the six victims’ final act on Earth.

Two days after the event, I noted that the major news networks (not including CNN) had dedicated scant coverage to the shooting compared to Aurora, leaving it "destined to disappear into the realm of the nothing-to-be-done, nothing-to-be-discussed."

“All things being relative, I’m in a good spot,” Murphy explained. “Obviously, I realize how fortunate I am to even be alive. I don’t know why, and I don’t think I’ll ever know why....

What happened at Oak Creek matters to us first, as faith leaders, because we recognize a deep responsibility to act as stewards of community.

Now, the victims of Oak Creek must never be reduced to mere crime statistics. But, in order to honor their untimely losses by ensuring that justice can be done – they do need to be counted.

To honor them is to tell our children powerful, interconnected and hopeful narratives about their precious skin colors, faiths and cultures. To remember them is to envision and bring about a different racial landscape in our country.

Hundreds gathered in Oak Creek Saturday for a run-walk in memory of the Sikh temple shooting.

For 90 minutes Monday, the crowd of 750 students sat riveted. They watched the two men offer a vision of what comes after an act of hatred.

Whites might actually have to start distancing themselves from white supremacy.

Since his 6-year-old daughter was killed in the Connecticut school shooting, Robbie Parker has been encouraging people to try to find peace in tragedy.

When Sikhs began to restore their gurdwara in Oak Creek, “I saw the spirit of chardi kala, everlasting hope and optimism, in the community,” recalls activist Valarie Kaur.

Members of the Milwaukee-area Sikh (seek') temple where a gunman killed six people last year are now taking registrations for a memorial run marking the first anniversary of the tragedy.

It was with much sadness that I saw the below scene of the Saragarhi memorial in Amritsar.

The Sikh clergy here on Wednesday failed to resolve the controversy over militant preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s name inscribed on the Operation Bluestar memorial and the signboard in the ‘parkarma’ of the Golden Temple complex.

Flowers were laid by the newly installed King of the Netherlands Mr. Willem Alexander and the Queen Maxima, Army Generals, Prime Minister Mr. Mark Rutte and his whole Cabinet of Ministers, Mayor of Amsterdam and many other prominent leaders of the Netherlands. Over 25,000 people participated in the ceremony.

“I wanted to get off of that parade of pain,” he said. “I said, ‘I don’t want to come to these vigils anymore,’ -- it was killing me --

To pay tribute to the brave soldiers and servicemen who had come so far away from home and fought for a cause they may not have comprehended, in a sombre ceremony a poem of victory was recited: 'Deh Shiva Bar Mohe Eha'