Archive for November 21st, 2011

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    Letters From Bill – Friday, Jan. 28, 1944

    November 21, 2011 by Dan Black
    Dear Mum, Dad, Bette and Commando Jack: …Well, in four more hours I will be old enough to vote, but so far it hasn’t had any effect on me. Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be twenty-one but I sure don’t feel that old....
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    Reader’s Quiz Answers

    November 21, 2011 by admin
    Here are the answers to the Readers’ Quiz in the November/December issue of Legion Magazine. Kitcheners Wood was not named after of the British military leader. It takes its name from the kitchens French troops set up in the area in the early part of the...
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    Inside The Blast: Part 1: Anatomy Of An Explosion

    November 21, 2011 by Sharon Adams
    In 2008, Master Corporal Mike Trauner, deployed with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR), was on foot patrol in the Zhari District west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, when a remotely controlled IED (improvised explosive device) was detonated under his feet. The blast blew off...