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As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain
Around 400 attended to honor WWII veterans who emphasize passing on memories as their numbers dwindle 80 years after the war ended.
- On Tuesday, a Remembrance Day service at Kings Park, Australia drew veterans including George Franklin among about 400 attendees, with memories and emotions seen as a legacy to pass on.
- Eighty years after the war ended, Veterans Affairs Canada estimates 3,024 surviving Canadian Second World War veterans, while Jeff Noakes said, 'The events of the Second World War are very rapidly moving from the realm of lived history of people you can talk to about these events into history, where you can't talk to the people who remember them.'
- George Franklin recalled enlisting at 18 in 1940, serving at Noonkanbah Station refuelling US bombers, later joining the Army Band and playing the Last Post often; Russell Hosken remembered conscription in 1942 and duty at Oliver Hill on Rottnest Island.
- Chief Justice Richard Wagner will fill in for Mary Simon, Governor General, at this year's National War Memorial, Ottawa ceremony attended by Prime Minister Mark Carney, Gen. Jennie Carignan, and Nancy Payne, National Silver Cross Mother.
- The War Museum has collected interviews with last remaining veterans for the 'Last Voices of the Second World War' exhibition, running through Jan. 18, highlighting efforts to preserve memories as official statistics evolve.
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As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain
OTTAWA - Eighty years after the end of the deadliest conflict in history, the number of living Second World War veterans has dwindled to a few thousand.
·Toronto, Canada
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