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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

YOU AREN'T ALONE AS A CRYBABY AS REMEMBRANCE DAY APPROACHES. SAME HERE. AS A NOW 76 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF BOTH PARENTS BEING WAR VETERANS FROM WWII. DAD DIED SO YOUNG AT 54 WITH SHRAPNEL STILL SHOWING UP AS SHARDS OF SHRAPNEL EVENTUALLY EXITED THROUGH HIS ARM OR A THIGH OR HIS CHEST OR HIS ARMS AND WRISTS. I DON'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHY HE HAD 2 HEART ATTACKS THAT DIDN'T KILL HIM, BUT I SUSPECT PIECES OF SHRAPNEL CAUSED THE ATTACKS. THE 3RD HEART ATTACK HE HAD KILLED HIM. I GUESS THE GERMAN SOLDIERS FINALLY WON THAT VERY LONG BATTLE AGAINST A VERY STRONG CANADIAN SOLDIER. HE WAS A GUNNER DRAGGING THAT HEAVY EQUIPMENT ACROSS EUROPE ALL THE WAY TO ARMISTICE IN HOLLAND...WHEN HE ARRIVED BACK IN CANADA HE EXERCISED, HE CURLED, HE GOLFED, HE HUNTED AND HE FISHED, AND HE WORKED AS A PHYSICAL EDUC. INSTRUCTOR IN PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MB FOR VETERAN'S WHO LOST LIMBS IN THAT AWFUL WAR. THAT'S WHERE HE MET HIS BRIDE TO BE WHO WAS MANAGING THE PAPERWORK FOR THOSE SERVICES TO INJURED VETERANS.

IN DYING HE LEFT OUR MOTHER - A VETERAN WOMEN'S ARMY CORP. WIFE BEHIND, ALONG WITH 5 CHILDREN WHO ADORED HIM. THIS YEAR WILL BE MY 2ND YEAR TO WATCH REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICES ON MY DESKTOP INSTEAD OF GOING TO AN OUTDOOR SERVICE. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR VETERANS AFFAIRS TO SEND ME MY ANNUAL REQUEST DONATION LETTER...IT HAS NOT ARRIVED. AND YET NONE OF MY CONTACT INFO HAS CHANGED. I HOPE VA DOESN'T THINK I AM DEAD. I GUESS I WILL SEND THE ORGANIZATION A NOTE...AND THE $250.00 THAT I HAVE BEEN SENDING ANNUALLY IN MEMORY OF MY PARENTS.

I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOUR CONSISTENTLY HONEST REPORTING. A HIGHLIGHT OF EACH PRECIOUS DAY THAT I WAKE UP. SINCERELY, CATHERINE

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Karen Benz's avatar

Catherine, a posthumous thank you to your lovely parents for their sacrifice and service.💕🇨🇦

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH KAREN...AND THERE I GO AGAIN...TEARING UP - THIS TIME OF YEAR IS ALWAYS SO EMOTIONAL FOR SO MANY CANADIANS.

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Mark L's avatar

Caps Locked?

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

EYES FAILING. MY APOLOGY, MARK. THE COMBO OF GLASSES AND HESH EVO EAR PADS SO MY HUSBAND ISN'T DISTURBED BY WHAT I AM LISTENING TO IS REQUIRED. i can type in lower case but find i can catch spelling errors using caps. Kind of like using a cane so i don't slip on ice.

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Mark L's avatar

Im a bit dyslexic. So no harm no fowl, I meant no foul. Sometimes I reply to a post and afterwards go oh my......

And if I dont triple check it.........

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

HAHA, WE'D MAKE A GREAT TEAM, MARK, I COULD CORRECT YOUR SPELLING AND YOU COULD PS ME OFF ONCE A DAY AND APOLOGIZE FOR THE KISS AND MAKE UP PART OF HUMAN NATURE. SENDING YOU THE KISS.

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Mark L's avatar

Wife is jealous....lol

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

HAHAHAHAHA. Husband is asleep with the cat.

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Julia  Watson Blasioli's avatar

My grandfather was in the CEF WW1 too

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Mark L's avatar

My grandpa's cousin from Newfoundland died in the first world war , he is buried in Turkey.

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Darcy Hickson's avatar

Lest we forget.

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UncleMac's avatar

Poilievre & the Conservatives lost the election by allowing the Liberals & their lapdog media to form the narrative. Instead of leading, Pierre was reacting. The budget debacle shows that's still the case. Unless Pierre can figure out how to crack this conundrum, the Liberals will continue to form gubbermint.

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Thorne Sutherland's avatar

Allow? You’re right that “the Liberals and their lapdog media set the narrative” but please explain how he would have been able to fight back given the lapdog media gives the Conservatives very little quality airtime. CTV was found out to having doctored clips, similar to the recent discovery about the BBC doing the same thing and gaslighting Britons. Poilievre used social media rather effectively and word of mouth also worked, proven by the sizes of the rallies.

We the people are the ones that need to help crack the conundrum but letting the lapdog media know their time is up. Government funding is making that difficult but we have to find a way. And we need to do it not just for the sake of the Conservative Party but for Canada as a whole. Otherwise everything our military sacrifices will be for naught.

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DJ_Wight's avatar

I have 100% confidence that under Mr. Net Zero Carney, excuses will be found to ensure that absolutely NOTHING of any substance is allowed to happen related to pipelines or any kind of O&G development in Canada. Reasons will always be found to justify nothing whatsoever being done. I am increasingly suspicious that the real objective here remains to get as many as possible so poor and desperate that many will fall obediently in line, the minute UBIs are offered as welfare. This will of course require submission to digital IDs, a readily hackable national database, and programmable currency, imposing a Chinese style social credit system and/or carbon footprint tracking as lauded by his UN/WEF cronies. I will also not be surprised if all dissidents, especially older ones like me, become subject to euthanasia for "mental health" reasons.

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s r's avatar

do you believe in the uniparty system?

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Bill Littleton's avatar

Never bite the hand that feeds you. In fact allows you to pig out uncontrollably at the trough! The conservatives on the other hand would like to remove you from the barn and let you forage for yourself in the free market of exchanging ideas.

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James's avatar

Broken record…

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