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Italy Remembers CANADA’S FALLEN SOLDIERS
BY ANDREW EXELBY | PHOTOS COURTESY COMMUNITIES IN BLOOM
Communities in Bloom is a grassroots program with strong community ties. Each year many CiB participants help coordinate Remembrance Day tributes, cemetery projects and memorial initiatives that commemorate our fallen heroes. Our soldiers’ sacrifices are beyond what most can imagine, and CiB is humbled to have the opportunity to honour soldiers each year.
(Rough) translation of a notice placed in the Cervia newspaper: Photo shows the advance towards Ravenna of a unit of Canadian soldiers in the winter of 1944/45 after having freed Cervia, where five of their comrades fell on the morning of October 22, 1944. With this initiative we are soliciting your membership to ask the Municipal Administration that the plaque, which remembers them, be placed in a more suitable and more visible position in the historic center in order to honour their memory with dignity. These young Canadians died at the dawn of our liberation after a long night of merciless warfare. Thank you.
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