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PHOTOS: TOM MacGREGOR Clockwise from left: Daniel Hiscock stands under the Vimy Memorial; the delegation at Vimy; an etching of John McCrae’s headstone. It was the sound of applause that struck members of the 2007 Royal Canadian Legion Youth Leaders’ Pilgrimage of Remembrance when they...
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PHOTO: TOM MacGREGOR Staff and residents of the Kipnes Centre enjoy visiting Ramsay, one of two trained miniature ponies at the centre. Veterans in the new Dianne and Irving Kipnes Centre for Veterans in Edmonton may have trouble explaining to their families that there is...
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ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY It was Canada Day Eve, a special night for the soldiers at the main Canadian Forces Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Master Bombardier Bounyarattanaphon Makthepharak, fresh out of the shower after one of his gruelling gym workouts, was sitting down with his buddies...
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ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY Retired Warrant Officer Terri Orser. “I didn’t tell anybody–for a long time. I was diagnosed way back when it was so taboo…. But I had it before that. I just didn’t know it.” As Terri Orser talks about getting diagnosed with post-traumatic...
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PHOTO: NATALIE SALAT Legion service officer Gerry Finlay, in Edmonton. It’s still early days in the life of the New Veterans Charter, but some initial assessments have crystallized since the government’s overhaul of veterans’ benefits and services took effect April 1, 2006. Reviews so far...
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ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY Master Corporal Paul Franklin. “I get rock star parking.” As Master Corporal Paul Franklin pulls into the parking lot of Earls Restaurant in downtown Edmonton on a humid July day, he brings his Mini Cooper to a stop in one of the...
Archive for November, 2007
