As we remember those who have and are sacrificing their lives so we can live in a free and sovereign country, students at Foothills Composite High School are doing their part to say thanks to Canadian veterans.

Crosses have been set-up at the entrances into Okotoks on Northridge and Southridge drive to remember local soldiers that gave their lives in military service in numerous conflicts.

Welding Teacher Virgil Greene spearheaded the project starting back in 2007 after members of the Legion asked him and his students how they remembered on November 11.

"They asked students what they were doing to remember or how they were remembering it," he says. "The slogan sort of stuck with us at the shop and we talked a lot about it and at the same time Calgary was starting to develop their crosses. It came logically out of that, that our hands on students really wanted an opportunity to show their respect for others that had been gone before them."

The crosses are for those who died in action during WWI & WWII says Greene.

"The originators of the first set of crosses were very much cadets, military linked families and I've worked quite closely with the Legion back in the day creating the Remembrance Day ceremony at the school so it naturally evolved out of that."

When asked about how today's youth are remembering this November Greene says you don't have to look to a combat zone to the find the answer.

With a local connection in Okotoks when Corporal Nathan Cirillo died in 2014 while standing guard at Parliament, November 11 will always play a role in a youth's life.

"Those connections are made really quick with today's students, it's such a global world we live in that they really do recognize the atrocities going on in other parts of the world. They've really have grown up with it since Afghanistan, Canada has been involved with conflict."

A full schedule of Remembrance Day ceremonies can be found here.