The Remembrance Odyssey
PHOTOS: TOM MacGREGOR
Clockwise from left: Daniel Hiscock stands under the Vimy Memorial; the delegation at Vimy; an etching of John McCrae's headstone.
It was the sound of applause that struck members of the 2007 Royal Canadian Legion Youth Leaders' Pilgrimage of Remembrance when they reached the small, French town of Buron--not far from Caen.
The group of 26 was on the Legion's biennial pilgrimage to visit Canadian war cemeteries, battlefields, and the monuments erected in honour of Canadian sacrifice and triumph during World War I and WW II. The youth leaders had been invited to hold a remembrance ceremony in the town, and they had agreed to parade into the square.
Jason Forster, 28, a member of Hampton, N.B., Branch, formed up a colour party, which involved organizing the oth...