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November 11th, 2015, 04:55 PM
#11
Saw this on another forum I visit - a member's Dad. "The hockey sweater saved my life" Thought it was amazing. 
http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Hockey/Ne...37215-sun.html
" We are more than our gender, skin color, class, sexuality or age; we are unlimited potential, and can not be defined by one label." quote A. Bartlett
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November 11th, 2015 04:55 PM
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November 11th, 2015, 09:10 PM
#12
Today I attended our national ceremony in Ottawa.
It was a moving event.
During the broadcast of the ceremony I was shown at 39/40 seconds into this link.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2678638085/
Pro Patria: Rick Ball C.D.
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Living proof that "beer builds better bellies".
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November 11th, 2015, 11:39 PM
#13
Has too much time on their hands
To all those men and women who served and sacrificed for my freedom - thank you.
The wilderness is not a stadium where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, it is the cathedral where I worship.
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November 11th, 2017, 09:41 AM
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Has too much time on their hands
Last edited by mosquito; November 11th, 2017 at 09:43 AM.
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November 11th, 2017, 01:24 PM
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November 11th, 2017, 02:48 PM
#16
Always think of my Dad to day. 6 years overseas (1939-1946) with the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment. Came home psychologically wounded, never to be the same. Thank you Dad for your sacrifice.
Picton Armoury Dec 1939
https://flic.kr/p/ZjWLhu
Last edited by Sharon; November 11th, 2017 at 02:52 PM.
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November 12th, 2017, 11:56 AM
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Until I die I will never forget Korea - what I saw and experienced - I'll be 84 later this month but many of the guys never got past 24 - I came back bitter because of the way the politicians handled the war and the way it was fought - there should not be a North Korea today -
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November 12th, 2017, 02:25 PM
#18
Has too much time on their hands
Originally Posted by
JoePa
Until I die I will never forget Korea - what I saw and experienced - I'll be 84 later this month but many of the guys never got past 24 - I came back bitter because of the way the politicians handled the war and the way it was fought - there should not be a North Korea today -
Once Russia started throwing in fighter jets and pilots and China added well over a million soldiers the only nation that was in debate was South Korea, even with the UN and US forces there was no chance of pushing North Korea out of existence. Number's of dead weren't an issue for Mao and his gov't, in their cultural revolution and purges they killed over 50,000,000 and almost 30 years ago the same party sent tanks to run over students and even today that same gov't is in power and building new islands to extend it's territory and increasing military spending. A friend of my dad described firing artillery at point blank range at wave attacks until they ran out of shells then setting charges off and running, no tactics just a mass of bodies, estimates range from 600,000 to 1 million casualties of the Chinese alone. Russia had the nuclear bomb at this point, the leadership had no problem with blood baths of it's people so North Korea wasn't going anywhere.
North Korea even today with its mass executions for "crimes" of watching western movies or owning a Bible and several hundred thousand in labour camps and a mad man that keeps setting of nukes it still has support from nations like China, Cuba and to some extent Russia so unless China sees an advantage in it there won't be a changes there. Right now even if North Korea took out Hawaii or Seattle and the US retaliates in the end the advantages of the various scenarios are to China's benefit as I see it.
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