It was a bright and sunny afternoon on May 7, when Chief of Defence Staff General Tom Lawson rounded the corner onto Aird Place in Kanata, following just behind the last Canadian flag to fly in Afghanistan as the Soldier On Afghanistan relay team arrived at Dominion Command’s Legion House.
Canada’s history is alive. All across the country—in living room corners, in the attic and spare bedrooms—there are artifacts from this country’s long and sometimes
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