For the past eight years, Darren Longstaff has created a Remembrance Day memorial at his home in Gibbons, Alta. "It just shows that I don't forget and I'm there for veterans."
To mark August 14 as a black day is historically incorrect, for it was on June 3, 1947, and not August 14, that Lord Mountbatten, the viceroy of India, announced the partition. Second, it lacks basic courtesy since our neighbouring nation, Pakistan, celebrates its Independence Day on August 14.