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‘A glimpse of the future of Remembrance Day in Toronto’

November 11, 2010 By admin

“…we’re as far away from the end of WW1 now as people buying Elvis Presley’s first hits were from the Civil War.”

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Rick McGinnis writes about (and photographs) various ceremonies around the city this morning.

My concern, not one voiced by Rick, is that as Toronto becomes less Anglo-Saxon, the wars commemorated will end up being Rwanda or some other basketcase crap and not the really important (i.e. “white imperialist”) ones.

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