KOREAN WAR VETERAN
Internet Journal for the World’s
Veterans of the Korean War
July 30, 2016
Korean War Veterans Armistice Day celebrated from coast to coast in Canada
They served when they were so very young, in Korea, a place most had never heard of before the summer of 1950, and they came from every city and small town and farmland in Canada.
On July 27, 2016, those who remain gathered all across Canada to mark Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, the day 63 years ago when the guns fired their last shots along the front lines that now constitute Korea’s demilitarized zone, and the de facto border between the two Koreas.
The Korean War Veteran presents in this edition only three of the principal ceremonies held that day, although many, many were held in every Canadian province.
The edition begins with the two national ceremonies held in the Province of Ontario, near the middle of Canada, then extends westward to the ceremony held at the Ambassador for Peace Memorial in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, on Canada’s west coast.
Temperatures across Canada were in the high 80’s and even the 90’s on the Fahrenheit scale. These intrepid veterans, all in their 80’s and many in mid-80’s or even 90’s, braved the heat to acknowledge that war they had fought in to make the Republic of Korea a free nation, and to remember and honour their comrades who perished in that quest.
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