Honouring Canada's war dead, one name at a time
10/3: Canada Covered
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For many, the notion of Canada’s war dead is an abstract concept of tens of thousands of lives lost to history.
But behind the numbers are stories of people who gave their lives in our country’s name, and to mark Remembrance Day, journalists in Ottawa will try to provide a picture of the life of one of the nearly 120,000 Canadian war dead.
Ottawa Citizen reporter Andrew Duffy joins host Dave Breakenridge to discuss how the We Are the Dead project came to be, how they’ll set out to tell the story of one fallen soldier, and why retelling these stories is so important.
Background reading: We Are The Dead: An appeal for help in honouring one of Canada's fallen soldiers
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For many, the notion of Canada’s war dead is an abstract concept of tens of thousands of lives lost to history.
But behind the numbers are stories of people who gave their lives in our country’s name, and to mark Remembrance Day, journalists in Ottawa will try to provide a picture of the life of one of the nearly 120,000 Canadian war dead.
Ottawa Citizen reporter Andrew Duffy joins host Dave Breakenridge to discuss how the We Are the Dead project came to be, how they’ll set out to tell the story of one fallen soldier, and why retelling these stories is so important.
Background reading: We Are The Dead: An appeal for help in honouring one of Canada's fallen soldiers
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