Veteran's Day 2012 is Sunday, November 11, 2012. This year, as it falls on a Sunday, it will be observed by most businesses on Monday, November 12. While much of the world will be celebrating Remembrance Day this...
A nation united in silence as Britain reflects on Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday, tributes to the war dead begun around the world as people observed two minutes' silence to mark both Armistice Day last Friday...
The UK home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered Muslims Against Crusades, an Islamist group which is planning to disrupt Friday's Armistice Day ceremonies, be banned from midnight. The organisation, which burned...
Six-Word Memoirs: Very Short Stories as Veterans Day Quotes Larry Smith of SMITH Magazine has launched a new branch of the Six-Word Memoirs project, focusing on the stories of veterans returning from Iraq and...
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Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, and Armistice Day are all celebrated on November 11th, but what are the differences between what the day is called? They all have the commonality of remembering the sacrifices of both...
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As the world pays its respects to fallen soldiers, different countries have different ways of doing so. Even the name in some cases changes, as it is known as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day. ...
It is funny how a day like today can effect me so deeply. I knew it was coming - it does every year. I still get overcome with emotion.
PTSD.
It is strange to think that the war was almost 18 years ago....
1946 sees my father in Vancouver, Canada. He's given up any idea of a career in the military and must now try to find work along with the thousands who have been mustered out. When you hear of our...
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Across the world, in Britain, the United States, France, Canada and many others, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is a time to honour all those who fell in military service. Today marks...
April 25, 1945 saw my father in a military hospital in England. He was one of many. During World War Two more than a million Canadians enlisted in the military, 50 000 were wounded and 45 000 killed....
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April 1945 saw the Allied Forces in Germany. Victory was in sight, but there was still work to be done. It was still a very dangerous situation for the Allied troops. Those at home were looking...
The big push was on by this time to get to Berlin. The world could now see the end to the Axis power. The map of Europe was being redrawn.The end of WW II was in sight.February 18,...
The terrible tide of war started to turn on D Day, June 6, 1944. Beachheads were established in Europe and the slow and dangerous task of pushing back the Axis forces was begun. Many lives were lost on...
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Separation from loved ones is the lot of the enlisted when they are sent out of the country. For Canadians sent overseas during WW II, letters and telegrams were the means of communication home. I...
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World War Two dragged on and on as all wars seem to do. The Axis powers were in control of much of Europe and threatened the sea lanes of the Atlantic. Great Britain received reinforcements from Canada...
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