Posts tagged Disaster
Forgotten Heroes 

So soon we forget; it’s almost part of the Canadian character, it seems.

How many times have I encountered cases of true heroism, often to the point of supreme sacrifice, during my extensive historical research. But even war heroes come and go in memory; civilian heroes rising to the call at home and in peacetime rarely rate more than a momentary ripple.

Monuments? Hardly. Immortalized in school textbooks? Not a chance.

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