The Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command in Ottawa, has taken the Virtual Wall of Honour it created and has posted it online for all Canadians to view.
The Virtual Wall contains a half hour slide show of over 800 men and women who served or are serving Canada.
“We were surprised with the quantity of photos we received,” said Bruce Poulin, manager of communications with the Royal Canadian Legion.
However, not all the photos submitted made it into the final product. Some had to be cut due to time or quality.
For those watching the televised broadcasts of the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa, the Virtual Wall was not shown on television. The Legion is working with broadcasters to make sure the Virtual Wall, with everyone in it, is shown nation wide.
“The original intent was to have screens on site and so we did the Virtual Wall. The next phase was for the television crews to pick it up. The problem was, the photos were both landscape and portrait. The broadcasters said it would be difficult to work that into a tv screen, so they opted not to do it,” said Poulin. “It’s something we’re going to look at for next year.”
Work has already begun on the next Virtual Wall of Honour. Canadians are already being asked to send in their photos.
“We’re already accepting submissions for the next Wall of Honour,” said Poulin. “This is something we’re going to build and ask people to start sending us photos now.”
To view the Virtual Wall, visit http://legion.ca/VirtualWall_2012/VirtualWall_2012.html
Response poured in to The Royal Canadian Legion’s Virtual Wall of Honour & Remembrance, including many men and women from Drumheller such as Michael Arthur O’Dwyer pictured here. O’Dwyer was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He enlisted in February 1943, survived the war, and passed away in February of 2001.
