Today the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion to hold a full state funeral for the last veteran of the First World War. The Dominion Institute started an online petition on November 6 requesting this to pay tribute to the over 60,000 Canadians who died in the First World War.
Too bad he’s not interested:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061122.wxfuneral22/BNStory/National/home
…well… that’s just one of three. It also sounds like another one of the three didn’t actually fight in the war either. Just stationed in England but didn’t quite make it into the trenches.
Cheerio!
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Yeah, apparently Mr. Babcock (Jack? I thought it was John) has lived in the US since 1924 and there was some kerfuffle over him being potentially offered a state funeral. Oh well. I read a few of the comments on the Globe & Mail article and it seems a lot of people don’t quite “get” this offer of a state funeral. It’s not supposed to be a spectacle, it’s supposed to remind people about Canada’s involvement in World War One.