Across Canada people pause today to remember our troop and our veterans and their sacrifice. I remember joining the Reserves and, while my role has been trifling, feeling deeply moved when meeting men and women in the Forces who had been around the world promoting Canada and Candian values. It's a very tough job and we have much to be grateful for.
We must remember. If we do not, the sacrifice of those one hundred thousand Canadian lives will be meaningless. They died for us, for their homes and families and friends, for a collection of traditions they cherished and a future they believed in; they died for Canada. The meaning of their sacrifice rests with our collective national consciousness; our future is their monument: Heather Robertson, A Terrible Beauty, The Art of Canada at War. Toronto, Lorimer, 1977.
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