Over the Canadian Battlefields: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919Dafoe, John Wesley
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Over the Canadian Battlefields: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919
Dafoe, John Wesley
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields; World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
If the dead gave their lives without bitterness and the living are
consoled Canada, the common mother of both, is richer for all time for
their sacrifice. In the life of the race a single generation passes
like a heart-beat; but the chosen few from this generation, whose names
are in the lists of the lost, are secure in their fame and in their
power. They have set for all time for Canada the standards of service
and of sacrifice; their example will, now and forever, sweeten our civic
life and if the occasion calls will nerve the youth of Canada to emulate
their deeds on the stricken field. A thousand years from now Canadian
youths will read the story of their deeds with hearts uplifted and with
kindling eyes. Safe in such an immortality what matters it that they
sleep far from Canada upon the battlefields of France!
Warwick Bro’s & Rutter, Limited,
Printers and Bookbinders, Toronto, Canada
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