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Media Advisory: Remembrance Day Ceremony at the National Military Cemetery
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 8, 2007) - There will be a ceremony of remembrance at the National Military Cemetery on November 11th, 2007, at 10:30 am. The ceremony will honour those Canadian Forces members interred at the Cemetery, and all of those who have fallen in the service of Canada.
The ceremony will include the laying of wreaths, two minutes of silence, and, weather permitting, a CF-18 flypast.
The following honoured guests will be laying wreaths in memory of those interred at the Cemetery:
- Amanda Anderson, widow of Corporal Jordan Anderson, accompanied by Regimental representatives Master Corporal Herrington and Corporal Sandford of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry;
- Charmaine Tedford widow of Sergeant Darcy Scott Tedford, CD;
- Heather Anderson, mother of Private Blake Neil Williamson; and
- Darlene Cushman, mother of Trooper Darryl Caswell
The Canadian Comfort and Remembrance Project will make presentations to those bereaved family members.
Representatives of 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment will be present to participate in the marching contingent and a hold a memorial ceremony in honour of their fallen comrades.
Where: the National Military Cemetery, on the grounds of Beechwood Cemetery, 280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa. Enter from either Beechwood Avenue or St Laurent Avenue; once inside, there will be signs to guide traffic to the National Military Cemetery.
When: Sunday, November 11th, 2007, 10:30 to 12:00 noon (EST).
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Governor General to Participate in Remembrance Day Events in Ottawa
November 9, 2007
OTTAWA–Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, and Jean-Daniel Lafond, will participate in the following activities on Remembrance Day, Sunday, November 11, 2007:
11:00 a.m.
Their Excellencies along with their daughter, Marie-Éden, will attend the National Remembrance Day Ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. The Governor General will lay a wreath on behalf of the people of Canada.
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12:30 p.m.
Their Excellencies will host a luncheon at Rideau Hall to pay tribute to this year's National Silver Cross Mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Beerenfenger-Koehler who's son, the late Corporal Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger was killed near Kabul, Afghanistan in October 2003. The explosion, believed to have been triggered by the vehicle in which he was on patrol, also killed Sergeant Robert Short. Both were serving with the 3rd Battalion, the Royal Canadian regiment Battle Group as part of Operation ATHENA, Canada's military commitment to the International Security Assistance Force, the NATO-led mission in Kabul. The National Silver Cross Mother is chosen annually by the Royal Canadian Legion to represent mothers who have lost their children in the military service of our country at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa.
Also in attendance will be representatives of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Halifax Military Family Resource Centre, as well as artists involved in bringing to Rideau Hall an exhibit which showcases the feelings and emotions of families bidding farewell to mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, adjusting to changes in their daily lives, and then celebrating the safe return of their loved ones. The exhibit is presented in the Ambassador's Room at Rideau Hall until December 2007.
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Families of 5 slain soldiers arrive in Afghanistan
Updated Sat. Nov. 10 2007 12:37 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The families of five Canadian soldiers slain in Afghanistan have arrived in the land where their loved ones died.
They came Saturday to take part in Remembrance Day ceremonies on Sunday at Kandahar Air Field.
"It was emotional to arrive in the country where our son lost his life," said Lincoln Dinning. He travelled from Richmond Hill, Ont. with his wife Laurie.
"It's a trip that none of us wish we had to make, but all of us are glad that we did."
Cpl. Matthew Dinning, 23, died on April 22, 2006 when an armoured jeep in which he was travelling hit a roadside bomb about 70 kilometres north of Kandahar. Three other Canadian troops also died in that incident.
"As a mother, I think I wanted to come to see the last place where Matthew was, plus I wanted to see some of the things he talked about that don't always make the news," said Laurie Dinning.
A C-130 Hercules transport plane carried the families to the base. They emerged wearing helmets and flak jackets, seemingly overwhelmed by the Afghan sun's brightness.
The families got a tour of the air field, chatted with some soldiers and stopped at a memorial to the 71 Canadian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan since 2002.
"We hope and pray that there's not another name going on it," Lincoln Dinning said. "But if we're going to continue to be here for years to come, then there undoubtedly will be."
Here are some of the other five parents and one widow who made the trip:
* The father of Pte. Kevin Dallaire, 22, of Calgary. He died in an RPG attack on the outskirts of Kandahar;
* The parents of Cpl. Christopher Reid, 34, from Truro, Nova Scotia. He died when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb;
* The parents of Cpl. Jason Warren, 29, of Montreal. He died after his vehicle was hit by a suicide bomber; and
* The widow of Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard of Bathurst, N.B. He died almost a year ago when a suicide bomber drove his vehicle into a military convoy near Kandahar City.
Commodore Paul Maddison escorted the five families to the base. He said the trip has been planned for several months at the request of Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff.
"Perhaps it will bring one element of their grieving to closure -- to be close to where their sons and their husband last lived and it takes a great deal of personal courage when you're grieving the way these folks are to come this far,'' Maddison said.
The Dinnings said they made the trip to show support for the mission and because Matthew would have approved.
"He really believed in what he was doing over here and he knew the risks," said Laurie Dinning. "He certainly was willing to take the risks because he believed in the cause."
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Poppies hold a bitter double meaning on this Nov. 11
Don Martin
The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Soldiers patrolling the fields of rural Kandahar in summer invariably stumble across piles of decomposing poppy bulbs, all of them scratched by a three-pronged "dragon claw" to bleed off the opium-producing sap.
In Afghan fields, the poppies grow with an agricultural vigour that surprises, given the fine-powdered dust that coats the country during long spells of intense drought. More than 90 per cent of the world's heroin production drips from the 6,700 tonnes of Afghanistan poppies that were harvested last May.
And, lest we forget, most of the proceeds from the illegal crop end up financing a Taliban insurgency that's killing Canadian soldiers.
The irony of the humble pinned-on poppy as the Remembrance Day symbol of their sacrifice is hard to miss -- almost ironic enough to justify the search for another expression of remembrance as a new era of wartime reflection arrives in Canada.
The black-and-white war memories of Vimy Ridge, Normandy and London smouldering from German bombings are increasingly shared by the tragic spectacle of commanding-officer news conferences in Kandahar and the solemn vigil of people standing on highway overpasses as the hearses pull away from Trenton, carrying dead soldiers home.
There is but one Canadian veteran of the First World War alive today. The population of surviving Second World War soldiers is dropping quickly.
While these bear-witness touchstones of history cannot be allowed to just fade away without the annual salute, the saddest memory of this Remembrance Day is that 29 fewer Canadian soldiers are alive today than one year ago.
All but two of them were victims of conflict against an enemy who shows little sign of faltering or inclination to surrender after three years of hard combat. With the death of six soldiers on July 4, the permanent memorial on the Kandahar Air Field ran out of shelf space for plaques to salute the dead and had to be expanded.
What also needs remembering is the 300-plus Canadian soldiers who suffered combat injuries ranging from smashed bones to multiple amputations, while the mental-health fallout for soldiers who experienced combat overkill has yet to be calculated.
That's why ramp ceremonies and funeral services for the Afghanistan fallen are starting to displace the mustard-gassed trenches and Lancaster Bomber armadas heading across the English Channel as the defining images of Canadian warfare.
This is particularly true for those who have been to Afghanistan, where soldiers who seem of an age better suited to dressing for a high school prom than strapping on flak jackets pile fearless into LAVs (light armoured vehicles), load up their weapons and scour the horizon for suspicious activity with an itchy finger on the trigger.
Journalist Christie Blatchford's new book, Fifteen Days, should be required reading in high schools every November as a reminder that Flanders Field is a glorified final result while Kandahar is a gory ongoing reality.
She distills a year of Afghan conflict into two harrowing weeks, using firsthand accounts to detail the battles and bloodshed before linking the deaths to the devastation on their families. It's a jolting obituary for the dove that was Canada's military during the blue-helmet peacekeeping era.
But if there's an unshakable memory of mine after six weeks in Kandahar during which nine soldiers died, it's of Cpl. Steve Francis, now happily back on soldier duty in Gagetown, N.B., and unsure if he'll ever return to Afghanistan.
In the thick silence after darkened LAVs delivered the bodies from an improvised explosive device in six "transfer cases" packed with ice on July 5, he was a pallbearer as his cousin, Capt. Jeff Francis, was carried the 200-metre walk into the cargo hold.
And yet, barely six hours later, he was packed and heading out for a 12-day convoy as the gunner in a LAV with a certain columnist sitting behind him, vowing to "soldier on" with the mission.
"Last year I stood in the Remembrance Day parade wondering who'd we be remembering the next year. Now I have the answer. I lost six good friends and a cousin," Capt. Francis says. "When I'm standing there tomorrow, it will be a very different and difficult experience. I'll be remembering those who died from events that actually happened."
Perhaps Sgt. Ron Anderson made the most interesting suggestion as he led us in a patrol alongside a ridge of mountains in Ghorak, smack dab in the middle of nowhere, a two-day convoy haul northwest of Kandahar City.
The good-natured sergeant noted a pile of dried poppy bulbs and then pointed to the buildings less than a hundred metres away, which were supposed to be the district office for Afghan police.
"They don't exactly hide what they're growing, do they?" he said, crunching a handful of bulbs in his fist.
"You should take the real thing home," he joked. "You can always wear it on Remembrance Day."
Yes, the irony was hard to miss.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2007
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Honouring Ontario's Fallen Soldiers
Premier Recognizes Courage Of Those Who Served And Extends Sympathies To
Families And Friends
QUEEN'S PARK, Nov. 9 /CNW/ - Premier Dalton McGuinty today formally
honoured the heroism, valour and sacrifice of Ontario's fallen soldiers by
presenting Tribute to the Fallen plaques to the families of Canadian Forces
personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty.
"Ontarians are compassionate and caring and have the deepest sympathy for
the families with us today who have lost a loved one in the service of our
country," said Premier McGuinty. "We must honour the courage it takes to
answer a dangerous call to duty and we will never forget their service and
sacrifice."
Ontario's Tribute to the Fallen honours members of the Canadian Forces,
firefighters and police officers in Ontario who have died in the line of duty.
At today's ceremony, Premier McGuinty presented the tribute plaque to nine
families. The framed tribute consists of a specially designed trillium and a
brass plate with a commemorative inscription.
Premier McGuinty made his remarks at a formal ceremony that included
Brigadier-General Alan Howard, Commander, Land Force Central Area/Joint Task
Force (Central) and Major-General Richard Rohmer, co-chair of the Veterans'
Memorial committee.
"These Canadian soldiers from Ontario will be missed not only by their
immediate families, but by their extended military family and by their fellow
Ontarians. With unwavering dedication, they served honourably the people of
Canada and Ontario at home and abroad," said Brigadier-General Howard.
"This tribute gives us an opportunity to express the depth of our
gratitude to our fallen soldiers - so many lives have been touched by their
legacy of love, friendship and good work," said Premier McGuinty. "Together,
we will do our very best to build communities, a province, a country and a
world that lives up to the ideals they fought for."
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Afghanistan lends new focus to rituals
TheStar.com
Honours for 9 from Ontario
On the eve of Remembrance Day, the Ontario government is reminding people that Canada is still a nation at war and Canadian soldiers are dying in battle.
Underscoring that war is not confined to history books, Premier Dalton McGuinty yesterday recognized the sacrifice of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and serving around the globe.
"We must honour the courage it takes to answer a dangerous call to duty and we will never forget their service and sacrifice," the Premier said as he presented "Tribute to the Fallen" plaques to the families of nine Ontario soldiers recently killed in the line of duty.
For Kingston's Tara Dawe, who clutched her 2-year-old son, Lucas, through the ceremony, it was a fitting tribute for her husband Capt. Matthew Dawe, 27, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in July.
"It's nice not only for the families, but for all the guys that served over there with Matt. I think it means a lot to them, too," she said. Some of those comrades were at the service.
Ron McCully, whose son Cpl. Matthew McCully, 25, of Orangeville, died May 25 in Afghanistan, said it was cathartic for the families to meet one another and spend time together.
"We're going to lose more men, that is a fact of war, there's no question about that, but we have to respect them and we have to respect their families as this goes on," said McCully, who flew from Prince George, B.C., for the service.
The other soldiers honoured were: Lieut. Mark Ashley, 27, of Toronto; Trooper Darryl Caswell, 25, of Bowmanville; Master Cpl. Anthony Klumpenhouwer, 25, of Listowel; Capt. Kevin Naismith, 38, of Toronto; Cpl. Randy Payne, 32, of Gananoque; Cpl. Brent Poland, 37, of Brampton; and Cpl. Albert Storm, 36, of Niagara Falls.
– Robert Benzie
November 10, 2007
Rosie DiManno
Columnist
For generations, Remembrance Day has been about remembrance of things past, distantly.
Only one living Canadian veteran remains from World War I. There was a feeling – both poignant and optimistic – that warriors and sacrifice in battle belonged to another sepia-toned era; that rituals for the commemoration of loss would always be backward glances, the pang of it fading as numbers dwindled and no further casualties added.
Afghanistan has changed that.
In truth, this country's more traditional peacekeeping missions have taken their toll in blood, 120 blue-helmeted troops killed preserving truces since 1947.
But the deployment to Afghanistan is warfare, even if never formally designated W-A-R.
Troops leave our shores as largely untested combat virgins, only a few previously exposed to live fire, and return as ripened veterans, just like the hundreds of thousands who went before them in two global conflicts and Korea.
And there are those who come home in flag-draped coffins (71 so far) a tableau acutely painful to this nation.
Remembrance Day resonates more now. It's not abstract.
And it is too contemporaneous to be burnished as history.
This is meant in no way to diminish the heart of the matter – aged veterans and their departed brethren.
"We should resist any temptation to change our time-honoured traditions of Remembrance Day," warns Lt.-Col. Ian Hope, Task Force Orion commander in Afghanistan in 2006. "It is important that we attempt to recall the tragedy of the First World War, the debt of freedom that we owe the Second World War generation, and the sacrifices of those who carried out the United Nations' first war in Korea.
"To focus upon our recent killed-in-action at the expense of those who preceded would be wrong. I would like to see our Afghanistan veterans visible by the cenotaphs so that Canadians can see them as a living link to Canada's past, but I would not draw special attention to them."
Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's top soldier, put it this way: "Remembrance Day resonates very differently, more viscerally, with Canadians now.
"The (World War II) veterans were the Greatest Generation. Growing up, I looked upon them as older men. Now we have young men and women we remember, those who have paid the highest price."
It may be awkward to think of the Afghanistan troops as veterans, because they're still young and strong. "But if we'd been around in 1947, when those veterans came home, they were young too."
As a child, Hillier watched ceremonies at the National War Memorial on his black-and-white TV. "I remember thinking, when I'm grown up I'd love to be there."
And he will, tomorrow, thinking of what an "incredible privilege" it has been to command troops, including those who gave all, and to have comforted their families. "Their hearts are breaking, because they've lost a loved one. But their hearts also break with pride."
Afghan veterans will be recalling their fallen mates from coast-to-coast, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Some 16,150 Canadian soldiers have deployed to Afghanistan since 2001.
Hope was in charge of the battle group when the fighting dynamics of Kandahar first began to change and troops started suffering significant casualties. He envisions what tomorrow will be like for those soldiers who lived it.
"The day will pass in phases," Hope told the Star in an email from Pennsylvania, where he is furthering a Ph.D. in American history.
"The first phase will see the soldiers of Task Force Orion up and preparing their uniforms as carefully as they would prepare their equipment for combat. They will work very hard to look perfect on parade, because they care. They will parade at the appointed hour and endure any and all types of weather and discomfort to stand and pay tribute to those they knew, their fallen comrades. This will be very solemn and personal. There will be no place for revisiting personal battles, no room for internal dialogue over tactics and strategies.
"They will at 11 o'clock purely and uniformly all concentrate and conjure up the faces and names of those that fell beside them. They will remain steady, as steady as I remember they stood in hailstorms of bullets and rocket propelled grenades. The second phase will see them gather collectively with brothers and sisters-in-arms, at armouries and bars, often in the company of older veterans who are now new friends. They will slap each other's back, do the 'man-hug', buy too many drinks, begin to relive the events of Kandahar, tell and retell wild stories and impossible adventures, and laugh hard. Then they will cry, and then laugh at themselves for doing so, and start over again."
For Hope, personally, the burden of command is still borne and Nov. 11 is doubly awash in memories – it was on that day his mother died four years ago.
"I cannot separate the significance of her death from the sacrifices of my soldiers, who I love as children. It all kind of rushes in together. The day is perhaps more poignant for me, because a number of the dead and wounded of Task Force Orion are attributable to my orders, my tactics and I daresay my mistakes. Others I witnessed fall, applied first aid to, carried to helicopters, closed their eyes, or removed their broken bodies from twisted wreckage."
Among those who fell, killed by a suicide bomber on the way back from Spin Boldak, was Cpl. Andrew "Boomer" Eykelenboom, a medic.
In the town of Comox, on Vancouver Island, his mother, Maureen, will mourn at the grave of her youngest child, then lay a wreath at the Legion. "I'm their Silver Cross mum. Duty calls."
Boomer was killed Aug. 11, 2006. He would have turned 25 last Saturday.
"Just because you're killed in a war doesn't make you a hero," Mrs. Eykelenboom told the Star a few days ago. "It's your actions that count."
Boomer had volunteered to go out on a resupply convoy – his second spin to Spin within a week – though tired and in need of a rest after fierce fighting in the battle of Pashmul. He'd saved a translator's life in that campaign, an Afghan national who lost both legs.
In the past week, Mrs. Eykelenboom visited area schools, giving presentations to students, using photographs her son took.
"These aren't pictures of war. It's Afghanistan as seen through Boomer's eyes, the countryside and the people. I believe that's what he wanted to remember.
The images, especially of Andrew, make the mission more real to the students. "They see someone young. I think that helps relate the soldiers of today to the soldiers of 60 years ago."
It was Oct. 1, 2001, that Andrew reported for basic training, just after 9/11.
"I phoned him, said, 'Please reconsider. Because the reality is that you will end up going to war.' He said: 'Mum, then I'm needed even more.' "
Tomorrow, whether they remember his name or not, a nation will pause to give thanks for Boomer, and all the others, through the generations.
Says Hillier: "Their footprints in the sand won't be obliterated."
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Soldiers mark Remembrance Day in Afghanistan
Updated Sun. Nov. 11 2007 7:20 AM ET
The Canadian Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was an emotional Remembrance Day in Afghanistan today as the families of five Canadian soldiers, killed in action last year, took in a ceremony at Kandahar Air Field.
The soldiers, both Canadian and Afghan, stood at attention as the families laid wreathes at the permanent memorial to the 71 soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far.
Lincoln Dinning, whose son Matthew was killed by a roadside bomb in April of last year, said it was essential for the families to show their support.
He urged the assembled soldiers to complete the mission and to "come home safe.''
There were tears -- not just from the families who had lost loved ones, but from many of the soldiers who had lost friends and comrades as well.
Angela Reid, who lost her son Christopher last year, said she had a "thirst'' to learn more about her son's life and his duties in Afghanistan.
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