The national Remembrance Day ceremony on Parliament Hill and countless local services across the country will commemorate Canada’s fallen soldiers tomorrow.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, who also holds the title of Canada’s Commander in Chief, will attend the national remembrance ceremony held annually on Nov. 11 at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Simon will be accompanied by this year’s National Silver Cross Mother, Candy Greff, whose son, Master Corporal Byron Greff, was killed in Afghanistan on October 29, 2011, by a suicide bomber.
The silver cross mother is nominated every year by Royal Canadian Legion Provincial Commands as a representative of all mothers of fallen Canadian soldiers. Greff was the most recent Canadian soldier to lose his life in the line of duty….