Remembrance Day:
November 11, 2008 marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Why Remember? 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.1
The Veterans' Week 2008 poster captures and pays tribute to Canada's service men and women who have served this national from the First World War to current missions. The images seen in the foreground feature Canadian Forces members on a training exercise before leaving for the international mission in Afghanistan. The central image shows a soldier departing for the Second World War saying a poignant goodbye to his five-year-old son. The soldier featured in the background on the left of the poster is a First World War medic.
Photo credits:
Foreground: Combat Camera, National Defence
Central: Private Jack Bernard, B.C. Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles), 1940. New Westminster, B.C. National Archives of Canada/ PA C-038723
Background: 5th Battalion, August 1916. Department of National Defence/National Archives of Canada/ PA-000518
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