Technically, I am an immigrant. We moved to Canada just before my sixth birthday and though I have some memories of the country in which I was born, a young child's identity is sufficiently elastic (or perhaps the memory sufficiently pliant) that I remember always thinking of myself as Canadian.
My father says he remembers well the day this fact dawned on him, that I was Canadian. I had asked him how big our army was, and he realised that I meant the Canadian one, not the one of the country we'd left behind.
This is our army. Je me souviendrai.
Posted by toby at November 11, 2003 10:59 PM