Don't be too hard on yourselves. We do appreciate the effort and the gesture. From a country whose national pastimes are whining and wingeing and bitching about the nasty US, even a little effort can go a long way, eh?
A sad, sad day for the country that supplied 1/2 of the men for the "Devils Brigade" and 15,000 men for Juno Beach. The men of Juno fought and drove back the elite 12 S.S. Panzer division. Combined with attacks by the American forces of the 20,000 troops of the 12th S.S. only 300 managed to escape. The rest being either killed or captured. There was a time when US & Canadian troops were one of the most feared combination of forces.
The "Devils Brigade" - The First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian unit that saw service in the Second World War, and which became perhaps the world's best special operations unit, being trained in mountain fighting, amphibious warfare, and use of explosives and weapons of all types.
It is sad to see a once great military reduced to such a state. My sympathies to our Canadian neighbors.