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Remembrance Day event to mark 90 years since war's end
Jennifer Campbell, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, November 06, 2008
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"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you, from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields."
In Flanders Fields,
Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae
Inspired by that verse, Tuesday's Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial will have a unique feature for a unique anniversary. To mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the date for which Remembrance Day was chosen, veterans, a cadet, a peacekeeper and an active soldier will take part in a "passing of the torch" ceremony.
"There's only one (First World War) veteran left, and so we felt it's time that the torch be passed on," explained Bob Butt, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Legion, which organizes the ceremony each year.
At the ceremony, there will be recent video footage of 108-year-old John Babcock, Canada's last surviving First World War veteran, from his home in Spokane, Washington. He will hold out the torch to symbolically pass it to Canadian cadet in Ottawa, who will offer the same torch to Second World War veteran George Dunlop.
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Jennifer Campbell, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, November 06, 2008
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"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you, from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields."
In Flanders Fields,
Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae
Inspired by that verse, Tuesday's Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial will have a unique feature for a unique anniversary. To mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the date for which Remembrance Day was chosen, veterans, a cadet, a peacekeeper and an active soldier will take part in a "passing of the torch" ceremony.
"There's only one (First World War) veteran left, and so we felt it's time that the torch be passed on," explained Bob Butt, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Legion, which organizes the ceremony each year.
At the ceremony, there will be recent video footage of 108-year-old John Babcock, Canada's last surviving First World War veteran, from his home in Spokane, Washington. He will hold out the torch to symbolically pass it to Canadian cadet in Ottawa, who will offer the same torch to Second World War veteran George Dunlop.
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