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By Glen McGregor

There is one line from the poem “In Flanders Fields” that in recent times, above all, commands our attention with its call, from the dead to the living, to remember.

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“If ye break faith with us who die,” wrote Lt.-Col. John McCrae, “We shall not sleep.”

Starting Thursday and continuing well into the next decade, the Ottawa Citizen will keep the faith through Twitter: starting at 11 minutes after 11 a.m. the account “WeAreTheDead”will recite the names of Canada’s war dead, one each hour of every day.

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A computer algorithm will tweet at random each name from an electronic scroll of military dead. It will take more than 13 years to tweet all the names, finishing sometime in late June 2025, depending on the number of new entries added to the list.

Ottawa Citizen Managing Editor Andrew Potter says inspiration for the silent memorial comes from Lt.-Col. McCrae’s call to remember forever those who fought for us, not just on Nov. 11.