Exactly 75 years earlier, Edwardson and thousands of other young Canadian men had come ashore on this very beach in northern France to begin the long-awaited liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany. Just like our men and women in uniform serving around the world continue to do to this day.”Fourteen thousand Canadian soldiers came ashore on D-Day. In many ways, the Canadian ceremony was one of contrasts to that terrible day. Some of those service members stood on the sand dunes for the duration of the 90-minute Canadian ceremony with bowed heads, metres from where some of their forebears had fought and died. “For inspiring countless young men and women to answer the call of duty like they once did.

Source: National Post June 07, 2019 02:26 UTC