National Remembrance Day Ceremony: The Day With Ted
I’m on the road before dawn, driving north along an asphalt ribbon towards the capital and the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre. I decide
Dan Black
January 9, 2013
I’m on the road before dawn, driving north along an asphalt ribbon towards the capital and the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre. I decide
Malta cares for veterans. So does the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League (RCEL) whose mandate is to provide a meal a day to the thousands of elderly veterans who
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, David Robert William,
22 August 2006, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.”
Private Bill Cameron could not know that enlisting in the Second World War would end with him shot through the back and left face down
For the first time, Canadians commemorated Remembrance Day without a Canadian First World War veteran. With the passing of John Babcock, Canada’s last surviving soldier of the Great War, so passed the live memories of those who served in uniform during that time. Yet Canadians do not forget; at the National War Memorial, more than 30,000 came to honour the service and sacrifice of all the generations of servicemen and servicewomen who have fought to win, preserve or maintain peace. It was the same story elsewhere across Canada, where huge crowds paid their respects in big cities and small towns.
Growing up in Sutton, England, a young Joyce Paynter heard people talking about the chance of war, but didn’t think it would happen. Then one
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