I know what that means. Gregory Joseph Clancy died at the age of 20 on April 16, 1945, in the sinking of HMCS Esquimalt, the last Canadian warship sunk by enemy action in the Second World War. Years ago, I learned from the Poppy File that he lived in the house next to ours almost fifty years before we moved there. An only child, his parents long since dead, he might easily be forgotten. But now he seems like a neighbour. I think of him on Remembrance Day. A kid from our street
--last paragraph of Moore, "Remembrance Day Project" in the current Canada's History.
The story is now up at Canada's History magazine online, and you can read it from the start. For even more impact, buy the magazine by November 11. Or subscribe.
