ABSTRACT
When trumpeter Rob Morson played ‘The Last Post’ on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the last memorial service of the millennium in the War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia, elderly stewards pointed out that the service was exactly the same as it had always been since the first memorial service in 1951, the year the gymnasium was built. There were a few differences, however, in the nature of the ceremony. The procession of dignitaries was led by a woman, the first woman to become president of the university, whose American upbringing and tourist experience at Dieppe compelled her to speak of her remembrances of war and valour in a quite different manner from that of the former Canadian soldier/scholar, President Norman MacKenzie in 1951.
