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That would be nice,maybe next year there'll be more than just me and my two old buds,my family and the Minister. :salute:

Seeing the media behind that fence like that ,kind of reminds me of the monkeys at the zoo. I suppose I would get in trouble for throwing them peanuts too The media will always cut to what they think will sell for them, Watching the news this morning, The news is interviewing a police officer at...

I have witnessed the most tasteless things on the news of late, Families of soldiers, Families of fallen RCMP, coming out of churches and memorial services, in the depths of their anguish and in the midst of their mourning their loved one’s. Well! There are the cameras catching every emotion, to...

I have been reading previous entries that we made from my old war diary, they bring back a lot of memories, I can remember the day, that we shot down the two German fighter-bombers, They had us on coastal watch in Eastburn England. I can’t remember what the coal plant supplied power for, but...

Dearest Families. How you must hurt, No one can ever know. I too, have lost, Lost so very much of my youth and the people who shared it. Including my first born, My son, Yes, I too,belong to the special few who have given of themselves, their family, their legacy, to the call of doing what...

To all my friends who read my story. I wrote this a time before,I believe in times like this,it needs a permanent home,here, I would like to pass along a few words on what I feel has to being a soldier, not for the servicemen who may read this but for those that may come across this who are not...

For a good friend.And a good man. I want to tell a short story, about a boy by the name of Eril, he came from Poland, I met him in Britain in about 41 or 42,He was about twenty years old at the time, when the war broke out in 1939 he was a student studying in Scotland, he felt that it was his...

I had someone ask me. What was the worst thing that you saw during your years at war, I can’t answer that, it would be like challenging my demons for control of what is left of my soul. I do want to answer one nice fellow who passed me a line. Whatever someone told you, about how the people in...

Hey, Boy’s look at the shooting star! One of the boy’s says. Shooting star? I asked. Where? Right over there, parkie. That’s no shooting star it’s a bloody 240 coming in. Geezus! Everybody hit the dirt. The glow looks like the moon is on fire and it’s about to go straight up your rearend...

Ortona Something I can remember about ortona, when we use to escort the trucks up in the evening, they would take what they needed for food out, and disperse it in sections to whoever could manage to grab a bite without getting shot. Mostly it was hard tack and water, because the men could stick...

I want to pass on some tales of my good friend Joe, I owe him that much, and a whole lot more. These are for you Joe, Love ya brother! I still see you has that young, big, good natured guy, who gave his life for his friend, Has time passes you remain has I knew you, yet I am not the soldier I...

well,one thing,about marrying a scot,for years I didn't know what the hell a  RIC-A_DAM_DOO was,but she knew exactly what it meant.one day years ago I was chanting that little tune about princess pat and the ric a dam doo and she asked me,what are you singing about the cloth of the mother for...

my old school teacher fought in wwI he use to tell stories about the ground being so full of water in most parts of Europe during that war.that no matter how dry it was on the ground, where ever you dug a trench it would fill  full of water.

Something I have been wanting to do, I wanted to tell you a little about who I am and my family. I married in Scotland two weeks before heading for Italy, I knew my wife for two weeks before we were married. I think a lot had to with the times we lived in, A lot of people got married in short...

This is the only place I found at home enough to share this stuff,all or most has never been told before except to my family,so it's all here and there more I'll tell yet,so enjoy.cause I wouldn't go through this again for Jesus Himself. Just Everyday stuff that happened would probably raise the...

Sounds good to this old guy. I will just write whatever comes into my mind. There are other scraps I was in with the boy’s,I will write about, but I like to sit and think and write it on paper, that way the whole thing will appear in my old noggin like it happened, And you can see what it was...

I'd like you all to tell me what kind of stories you would like to hear(see),maybe a certain time or place,where I might have been,                                                                               parkie

you might try the member of parliament for dauphin Manitoba,Inky mark,he has been doing a lot of work in This field,he can probably help.there are many of Ukrainian descent in his riding,if one were to want info for research on this,that would be a great place to look.

This is The one, thanks guys.                       parkie       

yes,they considered leaning into the barrage,more acceptable,The enemy being no fool soon learned,has any good tactician.Infantry follows a barrage,I think this is what caught us at the hitler line,because even after the intense barrage that the allies put down, we never expected to be hit that...