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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean - Speech on the Occasion of a Remembrance Ceremony at the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
Speech – October 30, 2005
France, Sunday, October 30, 2005 We are gathered here on soil hallowed by those who paid the supreme sacrifice, offering their lives so that others might regain freedom. My heart aches when I think that under these stones lie the remains of Canadian soldiers, all so very young, many still in their t...
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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean - Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of an Inuksuk at the Juno Beach Centre
Speech – October 30, 2005
France, Sunday, October 30, 2005 The Inuksuk, in Inuit culture, is a guide. This stone figure bears lasting witness that humans have passed through a place. It is a signpost in space, sometimes marking a spot that summons us to reverence and contemplation. Peter Irniq who built this Inuksuk, and who...