Epoch Times - The Memorial That Almost Wasn’t: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada's Anti-Communist Memorial
Aired: 2025-05-23
Duration: 01:16


=== Replicating Memorial Experience (01:16) ===

[00:00:00]  I have always been in awe of the American families who come to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC.
[00:00:09]  That memorial created a pilgrimage of multiple generations.
[00:00:15]  The Vietnam War has ended many years ago, and yet the American families come to visit the fallen.
[00:00:23]  From the first one to the last one, and they come up to the memorial, and they scribble the name, and they frame that piece of paper.
[00:00:30]  They take it back to Austin, Texas, to Timbuktu, wherever they go.
[00:00:37]  the idea was that we need to erect a place that would spark the same pilgrimage, the same need for the family.
[00:00:47]  If you have a small They can find their own family.
[00:00:59]  They can replicate the same experience.
[00:01:02]  That child can come back to the community and say, "Look, this is the name of my grandfather.
[00:01:09]  He came here and he gave us the prosperity and safety and really good life in Canada."