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0 Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh today unveiled the Bomber Command Memorial in London, an event captured for online viewing here. The memorial features statues of a seven-man bomber crew sheltered by a roof incorporating sections of aluminum recovered from a Handley Page...
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0 Detail from the Monument to Canadian Fallen in Busan, Republic of Korea. PHOTO: DAN BLACK, LEGION MAGAZINE Early in the morning 62 years ago today (June 25), the North Korean People’s Army sent troops to invade South Korea, the beginning of a bitter civil...
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1 The inaugural speech of Dominion President Gordon Moore was the highlight of the third and final day of the 44th Dominion Convention of the Royal Canadian Legion. Moore said he will continue to advocate for veterans, work to improve membership retention and acquisition rates, and...
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0 Listen to the speech by Brian Watkins, Canada’s Representative, Royal Commonwealth Ex-services League at the 44th Dominion Convention in Halifax. [wpaudio url="http://blog.legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/BrianWatkinsRCEL_2012_64kbps-2.mp3" text="Brian Watkins RCEL: Click to...
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0 Veterans affairs and commemoration dominated the agenda during the second business day for the 1,075 accredited delegates of the 44th Dominion Convention of the Royal Canadian Legion in Halifax Tuesday. In his keynote address, Chief of the Defence Staff General Walt Natynczyk said the Legion,...
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0 The 1,075 accredited delegates at the Royal Canadian Legion’s 44th Dominion Convention in Halifax got down to business Monday–and veterans’ issues were at the top of everyone’s agenda. Dominion President Pat Varga announced $500,000 start-up funding for a nation-wide homeless veterans program. As part of...
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Canada and the Holocaust
Many young Canadians may be unaware Canada has any connection to the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination program that claimed six million Jewish people and millions of others during the Second World War. That is about to change as Canada assumes chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance . In his speech at the hand-over...
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