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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
- Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
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April 4
1848: 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's): Regi Patriaeque Fidelis
1916: Canadian soldiers relieve British troops on the Western Front at St. Eloi. By daybreak the troops will come under heavy German artillery which will decimate their packed ranks.
1918: Battle of the AVRE
1942: Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall and his crew, flying a PBY-5 flying boat, spot a Japanese naval force heading for the island of Ceylon. Their warning allowed the island's defenders to prepare for the Japanese attempt to take the island, an attack which fail
1945: 11 Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry soldiers killed in action liberating Zutphen, Netherlands.
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