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Sonja Bata walks to the casket of her husband, Bata shoe mogul Thomas Bata, to pin a poppy on the flag following a funeral mass in Toronto, September 5, 2008. Bata's coffin was draped in the flag of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in which Bata ...
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