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To those of you who voted for my organization today, many thanks! Please vote again, you can vote once per day for us. 100K is on the line, and we have a good cause. Parents set the stage for a child.

Looks like a sword to me, rather then a cross. Maybe a dagger, but more likely a sword. Perhaps it's a formation badge? Sorry can't help further. Which army? That battledress was used by several Commonwealth and Free French forces.

Having received permission from Mike to post this, I would like to ask the members here for some support for a brand new charity.  What am I asking you to support? I am a board member of a new charity, PAL Parent Assistance line. We are opening a confidential national helpline for parents. A...

You may want to contact Jan de Vries, president of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion association. He may have your information.  He has been very active in keeping the history of the battalion alive. His contact info can be found about half way down this page...

I'm still waiting for the moon base and the flying cars I was promised in the '60's. Not to mention the 3 day work week computers were supposed to give us.

That sounds normal for Air Reserves. Air and Navy reserves both do regular force equivalent BMQ and BOTC. It's only the Army reserve that has the reduced length BMQ and weekend BMQ. I have never heard of any Army reservist taking a Reg force basic, but I could be wrong.

As disrespectful as this is at first blush, there could have been an unintended hidden benefit. People tend to walk by our monuments without a second glance. There's one outside my office and no one pays it any attention at all. I mentioned this to a coworker of several years, who said he'd...

Ha! It is to laugh. Here's a tale for ya... I applied in 2004, and it took until 2007 to go through the whole process. HMCS York had been really on my side during the enlistment process, and I had a great unit recruiter. But the process was held up in several places, partly as I have prior...

Is Remembrance Day dead? I don't think so. I think there's a mild resurgence of respect. Just came from the ceremony at Toronto's Old City hall. My impression is that it is better attended then previous years, and echoing another post here I see more poppies on the street, or so it seems. I was...

Ah, it's good to read that cadets still get this opportunity. I had the impression Cadets have been largely demilitarized these days. I had seen nothing about any cadets of any element being attached to any military unit for an EX or deployment anymore.  20-30 years back  Senior Sea Cadets had...

Searched and not yet posted that I could see. I found this article interesting, it stands in contrast to the public opinion that I encounter almost daily. http://www.thestar.com/News/Columnist/article/427330

You may be right, but don't underestimate the amazing ability of a curious toddler to get into just about any kind of trouble. If the stupid woman left a loaded handgun where the child could reach it, I'll bet it could have happened. I'm guessing the child welfare people are having a bit of a...

The surrender slagging likely has roots in that France's leaders settled for peace in WW2 before being completely overrun. The French government then collaborated with the Germans, rather then escape and set up a government in absentia.  Google "Vichy France" for more info. No shame on France's...

Aw, shucks, this vid is great...my uncles fought around there somewhere while Dad slogged through Belgium...I guess actually having your country liberated by our forces makes you really appreciate them. The "eyes right" really got me-I started to mist up, I must say.

That's a great find. I can well imagine my grandfather probably got a chuckle reading these during his time in the trenches. Thanks for sharing these.

I had the good fortune to come across this nifty site, perhaps it will be useful to others here. http://www.insurancehotline.com I had shopped around considerably for my auto insurance, and had what I considered a darn decent rate. This site coughed up a broker with a rate about $200 lower...

Bah. People love scandal. Anytime anyone has to deny some allegation the masses are disposed to assume they are as guilty as sin, and facts be damned. The NDP picked a tried and true tactic: Make a wild-a** allegation and make the other guy work to prove innocence. A politician I once knew told...

Is it possible this is a wild spin on an actual event, like say the CF gave Karzai some kind of written background brief to inform him for his speech? That's way different then actually writing his speech, but could be taken for quite the ride by the NDP. I know nothing about how this works...

searched to see if previously posted, nothing seen, so: NDP says Canadian military wrote Afghan president's speech Article link: http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=w092553A September 25, 2007 - 13:13 THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The NDP says it has documents that show the Canadian...

The course of some other threads ("Naval capabilities" and "Defending arctic sovereignty")  has me wondering about something, and frankly I really don't know enough to make more then a WAG (wild a** guess) at the answer at this point. So I am asking: what has more of a role right now in...