Archive for January 7th, 2012

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    Gesture of Farewell

    January 7, 2012 by Tom MacGregor
    There was a moment in the Memorial Chamber when Patty Braun seemed to lose her composure. There, on Parliament Hill, in the chamber devoted to Canada’s war dead, she looked into the Seventh Book of Remembrance where she could see her son’s name, “Corporal Braun,...
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    Salute To The Lost: Canada’s Last Remembrance Day In Kandahar

    January 7, 2012 by Adam Day
    Amanda is standing in the sun talking to her brother, trying not to cry. Peter MacKay is reading, name by name, the list of Canada’s war dead. There are so many names, Amanda thinks, who is going to take care of them all? Amanda is asking...