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• No Stone Left Alone co-founders humbled by recognition of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
• Join us for our Remembrance ceremony: Nov 8, 2013. Click here for last year's info.
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To educate, respectfully remember, act and honour all soldiers' headstones on Remembrance Day with the Legion symbol of remembrance, the poppy.

• Today more soldiers are engaged in offshore duty than any time in Canadian postwar history.
• There are approximately 105,000 soldiers buried in Canadian soil and with the world in constant conflict, this number is sure to grow.
• In WWI, 619,936 men and women served, 400,000 of whom fought overseas
• 66,655 soldiers lost their lives in WWI, and 172,950 were wounded
• Nearly one of every ten Canadians who fought in WWI did not return
• During WWI, Canadian John McCrae, a doctor serving in the Canadian Artillery, wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" while on the battlefield
• More than one million Canadians served in the WWII and approximately 45,000 gave their lives
• By the end of WWII, Canada's Navy with more than 113,000 personnel included approximately 7000 women
• More than 26,000 Canadians served in Korean War

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