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Private Hayden Lykkemark of Langley, British Columbia, was 19 years old when a grass fire overran a training exercise at CFB Wainwright, in Alberta, on Oct. 17.
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fire → overrun → Oct.
He died alongside Sergeant Morgan Wong, Private Shaun Farrell, and Private Aidan Goulding, all of them preparing to deploy to Latvia.
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all → die → Latvia
In the days that followed, the people of Wainwright carried their flowers and flags to the clock tower on Main Street, a cenotaph built to honour the town’s dead of the First World War.
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people → follow → War
They knew where to go, because the stone had been standing there for generations; a monument
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stone → know → monument
Much of Canada is losing that instinct.
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Much → lose → instinct
John Babcock, the last Canadian veteran of the Great War, died in 2010.
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Babcock → die → 2010
Of the 1.1 million who served in the Second, Veterans Affairs estimated last year that 3,691 were still alive, most of them near or past their 100th year.
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most → serve → year
A Leger survey last November found that 69 percent of Canadians intended to mark Remembrance Day in any way at all, down from 76 percent a year earlier, and that barely half planned to wear a poppy.
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half → find → poppy
The wars that made this country are passing out of living memory and into the textbooks, where heroism and horror alike are smoothed and simplified.
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heroism → make → textbooks
Geography spares Europeans this forgetting.
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Geography → spar → forgetting
Drive an hour in any direction in Western Europe, from Arras or Ypres, and the white headstones of the Commonwealth war graves rise out of beet fields, village churchyards, and the edges of ordinary towns.
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headstones → drive → towns
In places the two wars are written on the same stone.
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wars → write → stone
At Perth Cemetery, outside Ypres, which I had the privilege of visiting with an Australian friend a few years ago, the grave of a British soldier killed in 1917 carries three bullet strikes, left when the German army came back through in 1940.
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army → have → 1940
At Shorncliffe in Kent, where more than 300 Canadians of the First World War lie buried, the headstones still bear the shrapnel of air raids from the Second.
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headstones → lie → Second
A Belgian schoolchild walks past such things on the way to class.
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schoolchild → walk → class
A Canadian child has to be taken to them, or told.
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child → have → them
Stephen Staley discusses the significance of remembrance in Canada, particularly on Remembrance Day, as a collective ritual that honours those who sacrificed their lives in wars.
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who → discuss → wars
He highlights the declining participation in remembrance activities and the fading memory of veterans as the wars move out of living memory.
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wars → highlight → memory
The piece reflects on the need for deliberate remembrance and the civic virtue it embodies, urging citizens to honour the sacrifices made by previous generations.
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it → reflect → generations
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