Article: Canada's military heritage: detour - or road to oblivion?

When The Last Post sounded on 11 November some veterans felt it could be announcing a requiern for Canada's War Museum as a repository for Canada's military heritage. While such a conclusion may be extreme, the CWM has apparently lost a policy war with the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Corporation and, close observers feel, political correctness has won over Remembrance of Canada's 112,000 war dead as a motivating factor for the beleaguered War Museum.

The CMCC gained budgetary and administrative control of the War Museum nine years ago. Since then it has tightened its grip on programming and philosophy at the War Museum. Some 18 months ago veterans of the ...

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