By guest blogger Nicole Walyshyn As the Royal 22nd Regiment — the Van Doos — marched off to Afghanistan, we heard the usual enjoinders that, whether or not we supported the war, we should “support the troops.” Similarly, 10 days before, as the bodies of six Canadian soldiers were returned home, Prime Minister Harper advised […]
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I remember
Today is Remembrance Day and, for better or for worse, I remember. I did not fight in any war but I remember how my Granny suffered all her life over the loss of her brother in the trenches of the First World War. I also remember my other Grandmother telling stories of doing without her […]
