Lest we forget
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During the liberation of The Netherlands, 6500 Canadians gave up their lives during The Battle of Scheldt Estuary.
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Farley Mowat did not publish his war memoirs until 1979: And No Birds Sang?
The novel starts with his party animal daze as a recruit in England and ends in the cataclysmic Battle of Ortona. 2300 Canadians lost their lives there mostly in house to house fighting with the Nazi's. Mowat described Ortona as The Valley of Death.
The novel starts with his party animal daze as a recruit in England and ends in the cataclysmic Battle of Ortona. 2300 Canadians lost their lives there mostly in house to house fighting with the Nazi's. Mowat described Ortona as The Valley of Death.
I had a History teacher in High School who was a child in Holland during WW2. He talked often about the Canadian soldiers riding in to liberate the town. A friend of mine, an immigrant from Holland was born after the war but his parents and siblings talked about the Canadian soldiers liberating their town and handing out chocolates to the children. They said the chocolates were the sweetest thing they had ever had.
He is nothing but an embarrassment to this country.
Hard to believe he keeps getting re-elected.
I probably shouldn't have said that. This thread is a salute to the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to defend freedom here at home and around the world. I'll keep my views on him to other threads.
"Wounded on three occasions, Frazee distinguished himself in the Italian campaign"
Rowland Frazee - Wikipedia
Rowland Frazee - Wikipedia
The Dutch people NEVER forgot the Canadians who liberated them to this days. The tulips you see in Ottawa come from Holland every year.
We should never forget.
The Last Great Generation.
16-30 year olds from today, wouldn’t even be able to fight a cold. Mostly.
The Last Great Generation.
16-30 year olds from today, wouldn’t even be able to fight a cold. Mostly.
His old man didnt serve during WW II or Korea. He was I believe a ''Conciencious Objector aka Yellow or just plain chicken.Sounds like the buffoon Captain Bonespurs
- "Dutch princess returns to Ottawa, where she was born …
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2022-05-12 · The princess was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital after the Dutch royal family fled to Canada to escape Nazi occupying forces in 1940. On Thursday, the princess planted tulips at..."
There was an issue of her being born IN Canada. The room was then declared part of Holland so she could be born a Dutch National.
The storied 442nd Regiment also fought in Italy in WWII.
Going For Broke: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans (nationalww2museum.org)
Going For Broke: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans (nationalww2museum.org)
My grandfather hauled ammunition to his 20lb'er gun crew, in the first world war as part of the Canadian Corp.
He was a farm hand, then apprentice machinist before the war and loved horses.
He made it back all physically together but with a damaged soul.
In his three years service he had 4 different horses, as they kept getting felled by shrapnel or sliding into mud holes and breaking a leg or tearing up ligaments in the process of into or hauled out of the mud hole.
Never had a horse after the war, that was the way we saw his ongoing pain.
He was a farm hand, then apprentice machinist before the war and loved horses.
He made it back all physically together but with a damaged soul.
In his three years service he had 4 different horses, as they kept getting felled by shrapnel or sliding into mud holes and breaking a leg or tearing up ligaments in the process of into or hauled out of the mud hole.
Never had a horse after the war, that was the way we saw his ongoing pain.
Today is November 11th 2023 on the 11 hour. May you rest in peace. 
I pray that the situation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East conflict will resolve - where we can live in peace.
Also, I hope that we won't have anymore future conflict among ourselves.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
I pray that the situation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East conflict will resolve - where we can live in peace.
Also, I hope that we won't have anymore future conflict among ourselves.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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