A Remarkably Powerful Piece from Canada on Honoring Soldiers Lost in Battle
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In Canada it is Remembrance Day — far more powerful than our Veterans’ Day. Take the depth of Memorial Day up a few notches.
Canada was punching so far above its weight in World War II that its troops had their own beach at Normandy. The Brits had two, and the Yanks had two. The Canucks were the only force to obtain and hold their D+1 objectives, taking heavy casualties to do so.
In an hour or so I shall get to the CBC site and listen live to its broadcast from the cenotaph in Ottawa (11 ET). The Last Post is exceedingly moving, being surpassed in my life only by the second, soft, playing of Taps at my father’s burial. He was twice the sole survivor of the sinking of his destroyer in the Pacific, and I chose to hear each playing of Taps as a memorial to the other 290 men on each ship … who never came home to be “veterans.”