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Not all Veterans wore uniforms

Story by Brian Purdy Son of Gordon Purdy Through the worst years of the Great Depression my father slogged away, first getting a degree in

Tears of Remembrance

At the first strains of the anthem, backs straightened and shoulders squared. For a few brief minutes the white hair and canes were forgotten and

Remembrance

On Remembrance Day or, for a naval veteran, Battle of the Atlantic Sunday in May, I am called upon to recall those fellow Canadians who

The search for an old contemptible

It all started with a random tweet. My first inclination had been to ignore it because rule No. 1 on Twitter, as a journalist, is

How I survived at the Somme

A Newfoundland Regiment soldier recounts the 1916 tragedy that was Beaumont-Hamel Introduction by Christopher J.A. Morry  |  Diary by Howard L. Morry Howard L. Morry,

Pips off the port beam

Thomas Simpson was instrumental in the sinking of U-1302, a battle he remembers with regret to this day       My only living grandparent

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