Since Confederation, more than 2.3 million Canadians have served to defend peace and freedom at home and internationally.
A commentary by a Victoria resident who was a public affairs officer for the Canadian Forces and then a Canadian citizenship judge.
It is estimated that about 7,000 veterans of the Second World War and the Korean War remain. The living memory of the North Atlantic, Dieppe, D-Day, the Netherlands, the Inchon Landings, Kepong and the 38th parallel will soon vanish.
From 2001 to 2014, more than 40,000 Canadians served in Afghanistan, where 158 military members and seven civilians were killed and 1,800 were wounded. How would your family have been impacted during the summer of 1914 and fall of 1918? Or September 1939 and August 1945, when the world was in flames? His scribbled verse was field hospital litter when he tossed it away on May 2, 1915. There are a variety of accounts of how the poem was rescued and eventually sent to newspapers in England.The freedoms we enjoy today in Canada were founded 800 years ago in the Magna Carta. They are entrenched in the rights of Canadian citizenship in the Constitution Act of 1982.
By taking an interest in what the members of the Canadian Armed Forces, police and our diplomats are doing around the world, we defend Canada by being informed citizens.
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