Remembrance Day Posters

[Cdnleaf]

Good day, I wanted to share this link from Veterans Affairs Canada for their/our Remembrance Day Posters.  Caught myself reminiscing a little with some of them and where I was at the time.  All the best, Dan.

Argh, please see below / much thanks for the assist. 

 

[PMedMoe]

Your link is not good.  :-\

Perhaps this is better?

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/poster

Thanks, TheHead, I was just editing. 

 

[TheHead]

Let me help you there

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/poster

 

[mariomike]

Official version:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/poster/images/poster_1992.bmp

Reality:
http://www.kingsown.ca/Canadian_soldiers_Dieppe.jpg

 

[57Chevy]

And then there are also the Remembrance Day POSERS :evil:

Here's one Poser that got caught

Be on your toes :nod:

 

[HavokFour]

Official version:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/poster/images/poster_1992.bmp

Reality:
http://www.kingsown.ca/Canadian_soldiers_Dieppe.jpg

While I can understand the need to "sugar coat" the pictures for the general public, it still peeves me off to no end.

 

[CombatDoc]

While I can understand the need to "sugar coat" the pictures for the general public, it still peeves me off to no end.

I was just discussing this with my eldest, who noted that "The public is naive, and doesn't want to look at dead soldiers (nor do we want our 2 year old kids doing that, either)."  Maybe the general public assumes that the tank and landing craft on the poster were stopped by something other than violence?

 

[mariomike]

While I can understand the need to "sugar coat" the pictures for the general public, it still peeves me off to no end.

Not for me to second guess V.A.C., but perhaps the decision was made out of respect for the feelings of the families, who would have been elderly by 1992. I don't think my grandmother would have appreciated seeing a poster of dead airmen. Likewise, when the newspapers publish traffic accident photos, they generally focus on the damage done to the vehicles, rather than the people.
The Germans took propaganda photos at Dieppe. That poster is one of them, I believe.
3,367 Canadian soldiers were killed, wounded or captured in a single day.
There is a thesis titled "How the Canadian Public was Informed of Dieppe": ( it must have been an awful shock )
http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/bitstream/1828/459/1/balzer_2004.pdf