Mr. Speaker, Veterans Week and Remembrance Day will soon be upon us. The ranks of our wartime veterans are growing very thin. Soon we will have lost all our first-hand witnesses to the terrible and bloody conflict known as the war to end all wars.
World War I cost our very young country almost 66,000 of our men who gave up their lives on the blood soaked fields of France and Belgium.
Next week, as Canadians see the veterans marching proudly in Remembrance Day services across Canada, let us reflect upon the sacrifices made by these veterans on our behalf and remember those we no longer see, the veterans from the war to end all wars.
It is now up to us to pass on their story because if we do not, who will? Lest we forget.