Today is
Remembrance Day. Downtown - at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - there was a ceremonial laying of the national wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. All Canadian soldiers who died in any war are remembered. The honor of laying the national wreath goes to a mother of a fallen soldier.
In 1963 my cousin's mother-in-law laid the wreath. She had lost
three of her four sons in World War II.
Only her youngest son (my cousin's husband) had survived: he had been too young to join the army. (Here he is with my cousin on their wedding day.)
I can't even imagine such a personal family tragedy...
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