CANADA | Saturday, 5 January 2013 | Views [631] | View Smaller Image
The City Centre resonates with silence as the soldiers bow their heads to pay tribute to Canadians lost in war. The sincerity of the soldiers’ homage is magnified by their bowed silhouettes, which fade to the distant towers that reach upwards from the concrete. Like the crosses standing row by row in Flanders Fields, as depicted in the poem by Canadian John McCrae, the lines of soldiers are rigid with purpose. Only the water crystals in their breath shimmer in the bright sun to form wisps of smoke, and then gently fall to the ground as ice droplets.
