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Wednesday November 11, 2009

November 11, 2009 by Graeme MacKay

We pause, we remember

“Freedom is never free.” — author unknown

We pause today to remember the price many have paid for our freedom.

Much of what we mark in our moments of silence occurred before many of us were born. But that should not — does not — make it any less meaningful for us all to honour those who sacrificed their lives for an ideal of freedom, whether they did so early in the last century in Europe or earlier this month in Afghanistan.

More than 1.5 million Canadians have served our country in war; more than 100,000 have died.

Remembrance Day was established to mark the end of the First World War — the major hostilities of that war formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, when the Germans signed the Armistice. Nov. 11 has also become the day we remember those who served in the Second World War and the Korean War — as well as the military missions that have followed.

And it is a day when we see, most markedly, the changing face of the Canadian war veteran.

John Babcock is the last surviving Canadian soldier from the First World War. He is 109 years old. The ranks of Second World War veterans are dwindling; those who survive are in their 80s and 90s. Greater numbers of Korean vets still survive, but they too are aging.

The wrinkled, weathered faces of our elderly veterans are giving way to the smoother, but barely less weathered, faces of our younger veterans who have come home more recently from the Afghan mission. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Afghanistan, Canada, Flanders Field, John McCrae, passing, Remembrance Day, torch, veteran, WWII

Monday May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Monday May 17, 2004

Passing the torch

October 3, 2002

Sheila Copps is joining the list of MPS who won’t be running in the next Federal Election. 

The former Heritage Minister held back tears on Friday as she told the House of Commons she won’t re-offer. 

But the Hamilton Liberal MP says it’s not a final good-bye, suggesting she could make a comeback. 

“I turn the page today at peace…at peace that we have built a stronger Canada,” Copps told the House of Commons on what was likely its final day of sitting before an election call expected next week. 

“Today I’d like to say goodbye, but not adieu,” she said in French. 

There had been speculation Copps would consider running as an independent after being pushed out of her Hamilton east seat in a bitter nomination battle. 

Other MPS not running again include Art Eggleton, Joe Clark, Elsie Wayne and Herb Dhaliwal. (CP)

 

Posted in: Canada, Ontario Tagged: Andrea Horwath, Canada, Hamilton, mouth, Ontario, outspokenness, passing, Sheila Copps, torch

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