Remembrance Day marks the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month
of 1918 … Armistice was reached and the guns finally fell silent.
The last soldier killed in WWI was Henry Gunther of the United
States. He died 60 seconds before the
cease-fire.
Each year on November 11th at 11am, we observe two minutes
of silence to commemorate the great sacrifice of ALL soldiers who died and
continue to die, for our freedoms.
WE
ARE CANADIAN is a video dedicated to the men and women, past and present,
of our Canadian Armed Forces. The song featured in the video is called “Armageddon" by the Canadian rock band "Prism"
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| Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae |
The poem In Flanders Fields
was composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 -- during the second battle of
Ypres, Belgium -- it was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. He died of pneumonia at Wimereux near
Boulogne, France on the 28th of January 1918; he was just 44 years old.
