Claims extracted
12
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
1 of 12 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
95/100
Toronto Sun's corrections and
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Remembrance Day — honouring those Canadians who fought and died in the service of our country — is an obligation that passes down from generation to generation.
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that → honour → generation
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That obligation was best described by Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his famous poem on the sacrifices made in war.
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obligation → describe → war
McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields on May 3, 1915 after presiding over the funeral of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who was killed in action the day before, during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium.
Noticing the red poppies growing between the graves of the fallen soldiers, McCrae challenged future generations to honour their sacrifice by remembering them:
“To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,” McCrae wrote.
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McCrae → write → it
“If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
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poppies → break → fields
On Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marking the day the armistice ending the First World War was signed in 1918 — we pause what we are doing and for two minutes, remember in silence the supreme sacrifice of our fellow citizens who served our nation in war.
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who → mark → war
We remember the 66,000 who died in the First World War, the 47,000 who died in the Second World War, the 516 who died in the Korean War, the 158 who died in the Afghanistan War and the 130 who died on peacekeeping missions.
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who → remember → missions
We also honour the more than 200,000 Canadians wounded in these conflicts, many who returned home forever changed by what they had endured.
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they → honour → what
We remember the sacrifices of their families and friends.
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We → remember → families
We remember parents who lost children, children who lost parents, brothers and sisters who lost siblings, relatives and friends who lost loved ones.
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who → remember → ones
We remember the sacrifices Canadians who serve in our military continue to make to this day, including the four soldiers who died at the Canadian Forces Base in Wainwright, Alta., on Oct. 17 during a training exercise, due to a runaway fire fed by strong winds in which 39 other soldiers were injured.
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soldiers → remember → which
Remembrance Day does not glorify war.
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Day → glorify → war
To the contrary, our war vets are our greatest living ambassadors for peace, because they know the true cost of war.
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they → live → war
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