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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

If disconnectedness is the real enemy, then the combatants we target in this war are those who promote it, enforce it and terrorize those who seek to overcome it by reaching out to the larger world.

Our strategic goals, therefore, are to extend connectivity in every way possible, but only in a manner which promotes justice as much as order.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map

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429 T Sqn

429 Transport Squadron

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Today in Military History

August 9

1918:

VC won by A/Cpl Alexander Picton Brereton, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France

1918:

VC won by Cpl Frederick George Coppins, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens (Hackey Wood), France

1918:

VC won by Lt Jean Brillant, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Meharicourt, France (near Amiens) (posthumous)

1918:

VC won by Sgt Raphael Louis Zengel, MM, 5th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France

1945:

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

1945:

VC won by Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (attached to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy), Onagawa Wan, Japan (posthumous)

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