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The number of Second World War veterans is slowly diminishing, and the danger is the memory of their sacrifice will cloud and finally disappear in the mist of time.

We must not allow that to happen.

The world wars, Korea, Afghanistan — Canadians died too soon, lives were snatched away, lives unlived.

Those men and women to allow us to live the privileged lives we enjoy.

As you put on your red and black poppy, do not do it with sadness, but with thanks because the veterans who died in all Canada’s wars, I think, would be insulted if you did not find the joy they preserved and willed to us through their sacr

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