John Larlee, chairman of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, appeared before the Senate Sub-Committee on Veterans Affairs in early November and among other things
Dear Mum, Dad, Bette and “Commando Jack”: This is the first chance I have had to write since we left camp last Monday…. Mum, it
Guns fired in the distance as the 26 members of The Royal Canadian Legion’s Youth Leaders’ Pilgrimage of Remembrance stepped off the coach amid endless rows of potatoes and other vegetables in Belgium. These were not the guns of long past battles, but merely the propane gas guns that randomly fire to scare away birds from the maturing crops that rise from the First World War battlefields.
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
