A war history expert says now, as never before, is a time every community in Canada must remember its war time history.
On Sunday at the setting of the sun, churches in cities, towns and villages will ring their bells marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
It commemorates the moment in 1918 when church bells across Europe tolled as four years of war had come to an end.
George Egan is the chairperson of the War Time Heritage Association, based in Yarmouth, N.S.
He tells Acadia News that while we remember those who served each Remembrance Day, we are also forgetting so much.
“And we read names every year. As we get further and further away and we get to 100 years, the war time history is starting to fade and is starting to be lost. I really believe that the more that we want to understand what’s happened in the past, the more we really have to understand the history between the years 1914 and 1918, and the years that followed.”
Egan says by learning more about our local men and women who served, we preserve that history.
John Babcock, Canada’s last World War I veteran, died at the age of 109 in 2010.
The Wartime Heritage Association is a volunteer non-profit organization committed to remembering the wartime heritage and history of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, other Commonwealth Nations and Allied Countries during World War I, World War II and other conflicts.
Here is a link to their website: http://www.wartimeheritage.com/
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(photo War Time Heritage Association Facebook)
