Friday, June 06, 2025

Charlie Angus reflects on what he learned at a Juno Beach Commemoration some years ago

Here's what he said. This in particularly touched me:
At a beautiful ceremony in the vast Canadian cemetery at Bretteville-sur-Laize, young schoolchildren read out a poem in French to Canada's dead: "We are the children you never had. We are your children — the children of liberty." There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd as they read.
And here's the music. https://youtu.be/ii79Yoxf3Uw

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