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Pilgrimages

So Much To Learn: 2011 RCL Youth Leaders’ Pilgrimage Of Remembrance

Guns fired in the distance as the 26 members of The Royal Canadian Legion’s Youth Leaders’ Pilgrimage of Remembrance stepped off the coach amid endless rows of potatoes and other vegetables in Belgium. These were not the guns of long past battles, but merely the propane gas guns that randomly fire to scare away birds from the maturing crops that rise from the First World War battlefields.

Where Newfoundland Remembers

There is no living memory of what happened July 1, 1916, on the Beaumont Hamel battlefield in France, the day 801 members of the Newfoundland Regiment walked into a hailstorm of machine-gun bullets. History books record the facts and figures—it took only half an hour to decimate the regiment; only 68 answered roll call the next day.

Return To Kapyong

Dozens of Canadian veterans and caregivers pose in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. PHOTO: DAN BLACK Alex is pouring scotch when George

Along Quiet Roads – Part 2

Colonel Jean-Philippe Bonnet’s patio atop the bunker at his seaside home affords an excellent view of the beach at Puys, east of Dieppe. The illustration

Along Quiet Roads – Part 1

The Menin Gate Memorial commemorates the nearly 55,000 British Commonwealth soldiers who died in Belgium and have no known grave. ILLUSTRATION: JENNIFER MORSE This August

Italian Remembrance

Veterans and students walk through the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery following a candlelight ceremony. PHOTO: TOM MacGREGOR For 65 years his body lay in

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