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Mr. Aitken discusses his thoughts that the war unified Canada, and what his ideas of patriotism are.
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I had no feelings of patriotism particularly. It was just a case of doing something that had to be done and I thought that it was appropriate and away I went. The war to me unified all segments of the country. We were all in it. Then we sort of forgot and I don’t think we would like another war in order to unify us, but it was a special time and morale was good. It was really good. It was tremendous. I still get tingles in my spine when I hear “O Canada” being sung and if we want to be able to sing that and continue that then we need to pay attention and we don’t all have to rush out and join up, but we could be maybe a little more conscious of being good citizens and making this a better country.