June 2007 - Posts
CANADA DAY PARADE IN SIDNEY By Billy Willbond We out here in B.C. we all want to boast About our Sidney Parade and our Canada Day’s host Sgt Paddy Tower showed raw guts and power And we are proud to have him as our man of the hour! In Pashmul Afghanistan,
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Perhaps you have never heard of Katherine Lawes. Katherine was the wife of Lewis Lawes, warden at Sing Sing Prison from 1920-1941. Sing Sing had the reputation of destroying wardens. The average warden's tenure before Lewis Lawes was two years. "The
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Every Canadian fatality in Afghanistan has an addendum, a pro forma epitaph: "We mourn the loss ...'' "The deaths of these brave men will not be in vain .'' "They died doing what they believed in ...'' All of which
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I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply. He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you." We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home
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Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each looks like every other horse. But if you stop your car or are walking by, you will notice something Quite amazing. Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose
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An office reports that they have an answering machine that instructs callers to leave their name and address, and to spell any difficult words. Early one Monday when the secretary was reviewing the weekend messages, she heard an enthusiastic young woman
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LAST TRIP HOME By Billy Willbond Canadian Soldier Poet Our piper plays a tune of glory – it is a sad lament As Sgt Chris and Cpl Steve and Pte Joel are sent Up the ramp as an end to their story-back to Canada they went Onto the Herc for a final
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Miller makes troop bumper sticker a political issue Published: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 OTTAWA • As Toronto councillors discussed yesterday whether to overturn a decision to remove the Support Our Troops bumper stickers from city fire trucks and ambulances,
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