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Memory begins right now

November 11, 2007 |

When I was growing up, I remember putting up flags on the lawn for Remembrance Day and attending parades. As a young boy, I didn’t fully understand the meaning of the day. My father, Richard Greene, a retired RCMP staff sergeant, would stand at attention with fingers curled, thumbs pointing down the seams of his trousers, honouring his father, Enoch Greene, a member of the 108th Battalion (New Brunswick) of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in the First World War. I gradually came to learn that Canada was honouring its war dead. CAPT. TREVOR GREENE

Captain Greene dictated this from his wheelchair. Alan, at GenX at 40 has been updating Captain Green’s astonishing progress since he had his head split open by a Taliban wielding an axe.

My little boys and I will be spending a bit of time today remembering the sacrifices of their grandfathers and their great grandfathers. But we will also take some time to remember the Canadian soldiers who are fighting in Afghanistan. And we will start with Captain Greene’s article.


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  1. john sanford on November 12, 2007 4:25 pm

    Mr. Currie, I wonder if you might have graduated from Point Grey High School, in Vancouver, in 1974..? I did, and remember a bright young lad named Jay Currie in my graduating Class. I wonder if that person was you, and if it was, I offer you the best of congratulations, for your blog, on Remembrance Day.

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