Canadians are paying respects to the country’s war dead at sombre Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country.
Similar scenes are playing out at cenotaphs and war memorials across the rest of the country amid a semblance of normalcy following two years of COVID-19 restrictions that included masks and scaled-down parades.Article content
Outside the cenotaph at Old City Hall in Toronto, Alistair Stark, 73, stood in uniform for the city’s ceremony. “ landed at D-Day, I’m very proud of him” said Stark. “My uncle served in Italy for the Black Watch and he was killed just outside Monte Cassino. And that’s why I was over there laying a wreath in his memory.”
“And yet, we cannot and we must not take these freedoms for granted. With all of our talk of building back better after this pandemic, we must prove that we have actually learned the lessons of the past where there’s disagreement. May we spark dialogue. Where there is division, may we always strive to forge unity.”Article content
He added that he would also be thinking about his two grandfathers who served in the army in the First World War, and his father, who was in the navy in Second World War.
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