Remembering............Nov. 11-2019

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pgs said:
Glad they gave those guys guns .
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Too bad they stopped before getting all the enemies of mankind removed from power. RIP boys, somebody will finish the task, next generation as this one is a washout in all ways.
 
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I will be with our Lions club at Bowser legion since I am home this time. Last year in camp we shut everything down at 1100
 
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Same here 11/11/11 shutdown turn up the radio observe the silence, after The Last Post is done back to work.
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My daughter recites "Flanders Fields" at our cenotaph for about 3000 people. She's been doing that for a half dozen years. We alway have a fly past of the Lancaster, the Mitchell, the Dakota and usually three Harvards from the Warplane Heritage Museum just down the road, too.

I wear my Navy pin on my blazer and my HMCS Sackville Memorial tie.
 
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As an Air Cadet, we of course did the full service. For a lot of years after I usually ended up working, so missed it. Lately I've tried hard to go now; guess it's a "getting older" thing.


This Thursday, weather permitting, I'm going to try and locate my grandfather's grave and set a poppy on it. He survived WWII but it traumatized him and my great uncle, both ambulance drivers.
 
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Serryah said:
As an Air Cadet, we of course did the full service. For a lot of years after I usually ended up working, so missed it. Lately I've tried hard to go now; guess it's a "getting older" thing.
This Thursday, weather permitting, I'm going to try and locate my grandfather's grave and set a poppy on it. He survived WWII but it traumatized him and my great uncle, both ambulance drivers.
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My daughter started her Cenotaph recital tradition as a Petty Officer in the Sea Cadets. She has aged out of Cadets and now does it out of uniform. She's very good at it ... recites it well and from memory. She's an all growed up, willowy blonde too and that doesn't hurt her getting invites from the Legion!

One of my uncles was traumatized by his service. He was a Veterinarian who graduated from Guelph early in the War. He and his entire class was scooped up by the Army and they were put to work developing biological weapons (on Grosse Ile, off of Quebec City and Tortola in the BVI). They were culturing Anthrax on Grosse Ile and a seal broke and he and his pal got it. The civilian doctors couldn't touch them, as it was a top secret operation but they did get an experimental dose of the not yet deployed penicilin. They ran it through them, distilled it out of their urine and ran it through them again and again. He survived. His companion did not. His health was trashed, though and as Veterinarians are humanitarians by nature, his soul was trashed, too.

There are a million other Canadian stories.

Lest we forget.
 
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