Let's Not Forget This...Okay?

This is the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge.
What?
A place in time, an event, a battle that this country won on our way to a place of prominence and influence on the world stage.
What?
I know a lot of people, myself included, aren't real clear about what exactly Vimy Ridge meant and means for Canadians.
Yesteraday Rudyard Griffiths, (my new favorite columnist named Rudyard) had a great piece in The Star putting it in perspective.
He says, Tomorrow(Today) Canadians celebrate the 90th anniversary of the World War I battle of Vimy Ridge. At Vimy, a 14-kilometre escarpment that sits atop the Douai plain of France, 30,000 Canadian troops achieved not only a stunning military victory over their German adversaries, they also won for Canada the beginning of an independent and influential voice in world affairs.
Who knew.
Read the rest here and then let's not forget this, okay!
While we're at it lets not forget this either. Sad sad day for our country.