Remembrance Day - A Pittance of Time

Saw this on another forum I visit - a member's Dad. "The hockey sweater saved my life" Thought it was amazing. :)


http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Hockey/Ne...37215-sun.html

Today I attended our national ceremony in Ottawa.
It was a moving event.
During the broadcast of the ceremony I was shown at 39/40 seconds into this link.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2678638085/

Pro Patria: Rick Ball C.D.

To all those men and women who served and sacrificed for my freedom - thank you.

The Song 2 minutes again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_...r-IJJ4&index=5

Roger Moore again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMHOc9xfKQ

Flanders fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKE...-IJJ4&index=13

and remembering those serving now under a gov't that doesn't care (at best)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuNe...=RD0bXGZr-IJJ4

Thanks to all the Vets

Always think of my Dad to day. 6 years overseas (1939-1946) with the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment. Came home psychologically wounded, never to be the same. Thank you Dad for your sacrifice.

Picton Armoury Dec 1939

https://flic.kr/p/ZjWLhu

Until I die I will never forget Korea - what I saw and experienced - I'll be 84 later this month but many of the guys never got past 24 - I came back bitter because of the way the politicians handled the war and the way it was fought - there should not be a North Korea today -

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Originally Posted by JoePa

Until I die I will never forget Korea - what I saw and experienced - I'll be 84 later this month but many of the guys never got past 24 - I came back bitter because of the way the politicians handled the war and the way it was fought - there should not be a North Korea today -

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Once Russia started throwing in fighter jets and pilots and China added well over a million soldiers the only nation that was in debate was South Korea, even with the UN and US forces there was no chance of pushing North Korea out of existence. Number's of dead weren't an issue for Mao and his gov't, in their cultural revolution and purges they killed over 50,000,000 and almost 30 years ago the same party sent tanks to run over students and even today that same gov't is in power and building new islands to extend it's territory and increasing military spending. A friend of my dad described firing artillery at point blank range at wave attacks until they ran out of shells then setting charges off and running, no tactics just a mass of bodies, estimates range from 600,000 to 1 million casualties of the Chinese alone. Russia had the nuclear bomb at this point, the leadership had no problem with blood baths of it's people so North Korea wasn't going anywhere.

North Korea even today with its mass executions for "crimes" of watching western movies or owning a Bible and several hundred thousand in labour camps and a mad man that keeps setting of nukes it still has support from nations like China, Cuba and to some extent Russia so unless China sees an advantage in it there won't be a changes there. Right now even if North Korea took out Hawaii or Seattle and the US retaliates in the end the advantages of the various scenarios are to China's benefit as I see it.