Love Airforce Flag Symbol / The word Love is White

>> ON FEBRUARY 15, 1965, EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PEGGY FORDE LED HER CLASSMATES DOWN THE HALLS OF NORTHVIEW ELEMENTARY IN POINTE-CLAIRE, QUEBEC. THAT NOON, CANADA'S LONG-AWAITED NEW NATIONAL FLAG WOULD BE RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON PARLIAMENT HILL. EVERY CLASSROOM IN THE COUNTRY WAS TO RECEIVE ONE, AND PEGGY WAS CHOSEN TO CARRY THE BANNER FOR HER CLASS. "WE MARCHED [BACK TO CLASS] THAT DAY," SHE RECALLS, "FLAGS CARRIED HIGH, HEARTS BURSTING WITH PRIDE." SETTLING ON THE FLAG THAT WOULD UNIQUELY REPRESENT CANADA WAS NOT AN EASY TASK. OF THE THOUSANDS OF FLAGS PROPOSED, A SIMPLE RED-AND-WHITE MAPLE-LEAF DESIGN WAS FINALLY SELECTED. ON THE DAY OF ITS INAUGURATION, PRIME MINISTER LESTER PEARSON SAID, "UNDER THIS FLAG MAY OUR YOUTH FIND NEW INSPIRATION FOR LOYALTY TO CANADA; FOR A PATRIOTISM BASED NOT ON ANY MEAN OR NARROW NATIONALISM, BUT ON THE DEEP AND EQUAL PRIDE THAT ALL CANADIANS WILL FEEL FOR