“They all lived and laughed—just like us”
During this year’s Remembrance Day service, students and staff of Lisgar Collegiate Institute, a high school in Ottawa, paid special tribute to Pilot Officer Lewis Johnstone Burpee, a 1937 graduate of Lisgar. He was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber that was shot down during the famous Dambusters Raid of May 16-17, 1943. His son, Lewis Burpee, Junior, and Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger, commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, were special guests at the ceremony.
Emily He is a student at Lisgar; here is the speech she delivered during the ceremony.
