Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, Armistice Day: The Differences

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...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - A Reflection

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....

WW II Letters To My Mother: January 15, 1946

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...

November 11 - Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day

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...

WW II Letters To My Mother: April 25, 1945

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....

WW II Letters To My Mother: January 1, 1945

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...

WW II Letters To My Mother: November 11, 1943

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...

WW II Letters To My Mother: June 28, 1943

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...

WW II Letters To My Mother: May 23, 1942

During the dark days of WW II, when it seemed that the Axis powers were unstoppable, Canadians enlisted to help defend our country and Europe.  These citizen soldiers handed over control of their lives,...