It had been a good summer for him. He was a good fighter, strong.
His name might have been Mirwais or Muhammad or maybe Zalmai.
He wasn’t from Salavat, this small town in central Panjwai, but he was an Afghan and he’d come here to fight the foreigners; us.
They knew there would be bombs buried in the dirt. They knew their metal detectors probably wouldn’t detect the bombs’ wooden pressure plates. They knew that after the bombs they would be ambushed and the air would zing with high-velocity metal.
The Canadians knew they were advancing to detonation, that some of them were going down, that it was unlikely they’d all make it back to base.
They knew there would be mayhem and nightmare explosions and the dirty fear of dying.
They went anyway.
They walked across the field and into the war, and everything that they knew, happened.
Canadian youth have once again risen to the challenge of remembrance, as this year’s winners of The Royal Canadian Legion’s annual literary and poster contests prove so ably with their images and ideas about the past and present of conflict and peace.
HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE LINE This is part four of Legion Magazine’s story on the efforts of one small Canadian unit to win the
On Saturday, June 12th, at just the right moment, the rain stopped on Smith Street. The dignitaries—most wearing blue blazers—filed out from under the awning, and then the sun was distantly there, sending a glow over Winnipeg’s Marlborough Hotel, birthplace of The Royal Canadian Legion.
It was a display of Eastern Canadian dominance at this year’s Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Darts Championships, held May 7-10 at F.E. Butler Branch in
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