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Thank you. That was one of the best things I have ever read (and I am a huge book nerd) It got me all chocked up and now I need to go work my job on the telephone, but that is alright! Thank you for what you did for your country and your friends and for having the courage to write about how you...

I think it could work on some issues. If you had it for major issues every once in awhile people would take an intrest and find out. If you had it for every bill only a small group of people would vote. California really messed themselves over with DD, people will often vote for things that feel...

very intresting article thank you for posting

Liberal = party Conservative = party liberal = political feelings conservative = political feelings I am liberal BUT only the CPC really supports the military so I vote CPC even though socially I am not a conservative.

Med. Tech if you only read and listen to people who have the same views as yourself then you will get a very slanted world view. I am a liberal Conservative so I try and go out of my way to read Al Jazeera, the economist and other liberal press. Half of the problems in this world have to do with...

AJFitzpatrick is correct. I got my information from Candian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War By Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson, CD http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/CEF_e.PDF pp 23 It was the first infantry battalion...

Check out Battle of St. Lawrence by Nathan Greenfield. The Germans even dropped off 2 spys in Canada! Kind of ironic we locked up all the Japanese. My grandfather said that at the time they (the soldiers stationed in the UK at least) had no idea all this stuff was going on. The germans did some...

Here is an easy one (seeing as the last one went on for a long time) What was the first infantry battalion to serve outside of Canada in the Great War?

People having guns makes it more likely guns will be used. Comparing guns to cars makes no sense, sure cars kill (i could be wrong here) 40,000 Americans yearly but they are not murders done with intent (wellk drunk driving should be called murders not "accidents"). If the US banned guns it...

The only CRIMINAL problems he had was a speeding ticket...... He (very likely) had some kinda of psychological problem, I could be wrong but I do not think that is a factor in getting a gun in Virgina. He got the gun LEGALLY. Countries which ban handguns have lower murder rates. Over half of...

The killer was a good upstanding citizen before he went on his rampage. Besides the military/police/some security people no one should need a handgun or assult weapon. If America disarmed their population their murder rate would go down.

Sigh, I should have checked wikipedia before asking on here....  ;D geo I am no expert but it seems to me, and I could be wrong here of course, that the Allies should have known before D-Day that their tanks needed heavier guns and that they had far to many tanks which were not armed well enough...

Which Sherman was the 17 pounder firefly? Too bad we didnt have more tanks with decent guns in normandy..... Too bad the Allies did not have the centurion during ww2..... :) intresting, thanks for the list

This really is Canada's Omaha. In terms of choices it ties Hong Kong as our worst army (if not military) mistake of ww2. All this is in retrospect of course.

appreciation is so important. I mean we have cleghorn trips, high school teacher trips and things like this, when the younger generation sees what occured it will stick in their mind so much more than reading a page of text. If only we had the money to send every young person to see our...

I think that the media and access to information is a major reason we can not fight wars as we used to. Now if someone is killed their picture makes the front pages and we have instant access to their family members thoughts on the matter, this is not a bad thing but compared to the lists...

Worst single losses day for a Canadian Regiment in ww2 as I am sure you know Stacey Vol 1 pp 363-368 for the official history http://www.dnd.ca/DHH/history_archives/engraph/cmhq_e.asp?cat=1 reports #83,89,90,100,101,107,108,109 Im sure some of this deals with the RRofC, since only a few who...

A few comments according to my recollections of The Histories either 1 or 2 Spartans were not killed at the battle..... Here is an translationg of a Japanese highschool text: The Japanese army, during the occupation of Nanking, killed a large number of Chinese soldiers and civilians, and among...

Well I know you guys hate them on the road but I hate them on the sideWALK. And they always want the person WALKING to move or cycle with two people to block the entire sidewalk. Iv just taken to not moving. And if I knocked one of them off their cycle I would be the one in the wrong...

WLU's Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies has put out a number of good battlefield guides edited by Terry Copp. http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/ I would suggest taking a ferry to Dieppe, there are three beachs to see there where Canadians landed. From the pier off the side of...