| OUR CAMPAIGN TO RAISE SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO BUILD A SECOND WALL OF HONOUR IN PEACEKEEPERS PARK, GARRISON GREEN, CALGARY HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL!! | Thank you donors!!! In 2002 our Association working closely with the Canada Lands Company, a company charged with the responsibility of redeveloping the ex-CFB Calgary areas, took on the task of creating a Peacekeepers Park. A park which would include a Wall of Honour initially listing our 186 heroes who have paid the ultimate sacrifice whilst deployed on international peace support operations. This park now exists and is located in Garrison Green in southwest Calgary.
Since the Wall of Honour was dedicated in August 2004 little did we know we would run out of room! At the time of construction, based on the death rate of the past 55 years it was anticipated that there was room for additional names for the next 60 years. And then Afghanistan came along!! And we (unfortunately) quickly filled up the remaining spaces. We now have 233 names, including 22 names engraved on the Second Wall.
“All of the Fallen shall be so recognized!”, stated Don Ethell, the Parks Committee Chairman, of the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping (CAVUNP). The approximate cost of a new wall was estimated to be $270,000.00.
The CAVUNP Parks Committee sought the support of many organizations and individuals across Canada – who blessedly came to the fore! Thank you.
Although our formal Fund-raising campaign is ‘over’ there will always be the need for funds to engrave additional names on the Wall of Honour – and to maintain the Walls and the surrounding area in pristine condition.
Those who wish to contribute are requested to send their cheques “CAVUNP Calgary Parks Account” to the following address:
CAVUNP (CALGARY)
Park Committee
5808 Layzell Road SW
Calgary, AB T3E 5G9
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CALGARY SOLDIER'S NAME ADDED TO WALL OF HONOUR
LAST WORDS TO FATHER: "I LOVE YOU TOO, DAD |  | Valerie Fortney, Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
The last time Michael Hornburg spoke to his only son, they talked about sports, the weather in Afghanistan and a recent care package sent in the mail.
"Nathan told me about how he could see over the mud wall at the caravans in the distance," he says of that cherished phone call on Sept. 23. "But he didn't talk about the dangers he was facing."
Just before they hung up, Michael told his son he loved him. "And he said back, 'I love you too, Dad.' "
On Wednesday, Michael Hornburg holds tight to that memory as he stands with a small crowd on a cold, windy afternoon at Peacekeepers Park in the southwest neighbourhood of Garrison Green.
Together with his wife, Linda Loree, daughter Rachel Herbert, friends, family and a handful of military and Veterans Affairs officials, he watches sadly but proudly as Markus Kottmann puts the finishing touches on the latest name to be engraved on the 181-name Wall of Honour, which commemorates fallen Canadian peacekeepers.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 May 2009 )
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