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From YouTube: NOV 3 2022 Statements Michael de Jong
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
Abbotsford
West
Mr
Speaker,
my
parents
were
12
years
old
in
1940
when
the
invading
Nazi
armies
arrived
in
Holland
for
the
next
five
years.
They
struggled
to
survive
the
grotesque
perversions
of
Hitler's
tyrannical
regime
on
May,
the
5th
1945.
They
were
liberated
by
Canadians,
who
had
fought
their
way
from
Normandy
up
through
France
and
into
Belgium
Estuary,
and
into
the
flooded
lowlands
of
Holland
itself.
A
A
My
parents
never
forgot
that
remarkable
gift
of
Liberation
or
the
sacrifice
of
those
who
had
given
it
to
them,
and
a
few
years
later,
my
mom
now
in
Canada,
gathered
her
kids
around
and
reminded
all
of
us
that,
but
for
that
sacrifice
we
wouldn't
exist
as
a
family
and
she
helped
her.
Then
six-year-old
son
memorize
the
words
of
the
poem
that
are
our
anthem
of
Remembrance
in
Canada,
she's,
a
she's
95
and
believe
me.
She
still
remembers
and
I
hope.
A
We
all
will
for
the
the
veterans,
all
the
veterans
of
all
the
wars
in
Flanders
Fields,
the
poppies
will
between
the
crosses
roll
on
row,
that
Mark
our
place
and
in
the
sky
the
Larks
still
bravely
singing
fly.