Crawford: Remembrance Day and the symbol that 'must never, ever be lost'

“I was buried alive,” 97-year-old Second World War veteran Fred Arsenault told me.
An enemy shell landed so close to the young Cape Breton Highlander private that he was covered in a shower of earth. Miraculously unwounded save for a ruptured eardrum, his brothers in arms dug Arsenault out and he continued the fight, through the battles of Ortona and Monte Cassino, north through Italy and into France. Once, a German sniper shot and killed the man standing beside him.
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