November 11, 2017 marked Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day in a number of countries, including Canada. Historica Canada's Memory Project offers this powerful collection of over 2,800 oral histories and 10,000 images from or about Canadian veterans who served throughout the twentieth century. In addition to oral history recordings, this collection includes handwritten letters, photographs, and official documents. Items are organized into four categories: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Peacekeeping. This last collection highlights the service of Canadians who served in United Nations peacekeeping missions since the 1940s. Within each category, visitors can browse materials by theme (such as Civilian Life, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Bravery) to find stories and items of interest. Each category also includes an editor's choice selection of especially powerful or eye-opening materials. For example, in the World War I section, visitors will find a handwritten letter that Thomas Marion wrote to his mother from a hospital in Brighton, England. Marion poignantly wrote, "many a mother's heart is breaking for her boy who will never return." In the World War II category, veteran William Adelman describes his decision to enlist and his combat experiences in Italy; as he notes, one reason he enlisted was because he felt that, "...being a Jewish person, I felt I had to do something because we were being persecuted there."
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