.....It is at the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetary, a few miles inland from Juno Beach, that I see one veteran let his guard down.....In the lane near the one I am walking, an elderly man in a brown jacket, upon which a row of medals is pinned, stands with his gaze fixed on the headstone in front of him. Although tears glisten on his cheecks, the old soldier makes no move to wipe them aside. I turn away quietly, not wanting to affront or embarrass. The palpable nature of his grief is deeply moving. I wonder who it is that he weeps for, but when I look again, the old soldier is marching off as if to rejoin a column and I had failed to fix the headstones location. Just as well. He has come to this cemetary as an act of rememberance and wether his tears related to one fallen soldier or to all those lying here matters not.
This is a "liberated" piece of Mark Zuehlke book "Juno Beach"(please don't sue my ass!), a must read if you would like to know about Canada's part on that fateful day. About $50 CDN, but well worth it...I've read mine 4-5 times now and still am amazed by some of the acts preformed by those guys.
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