“We treated our veterans well when they came home in 1945,” Dr. Cook told me. “A modern Canada emerges out of the Second War,” Dr. Cook said. A casualty of that prosperity is reflecting upon the service and sacrifice during the war.”With relatively little fuss, veterans accepted that the symbols of World War I remembrance, like the poppy, would also be used for those who died in the Second War. You’re not standing in the memorial, tennis court or hockey arena bearing witness to the fallen,” Dr. Cook said. Within 20, 30, 40 years, most of those memorials were knocked down or we just lost the sense of what the memorial was supposed to remind us.”It took until 1982 for the dates of World War II to be put on the National War Memorial, and no World War II monuments to Canadians have been erected at overseas battlefields, unlike for World War I.

Source: New York Times November 13, 2020 23:37 UTC