Training troops at home for war abroad
It was a rainy, cold and dreary night during a long West Coast graveyard shift that finally hoisted Roy Rozander into the infantry during World War II.
Category Archives: Stories of Remembrance
Dropping from the skies
Bob Middleton of Killarney already knew he wanted to fly and fight for his country while he was finishing high school, just as World War II was getting underway.
Missing D-Day by a clutch
Veteran Ray Brown remembers a lot about the Second World War, even if he didn’t “see” a lot on his European tour.
Listening in from the ocean floor
It’s likely that few farm girls on the Prairies, born in the hardscrabble 1940s, dreamt of serving their country.
Ninga soldier’s name immortalized after 100 years
A century after his wartime death in the trenches of No Man’s Land in France, in 1917, the name of a local farm boy has been immortalized with the naming of a lake in his memory.
Act of Remembrance honours vets and marks 100 years since WWI
A military campaign took place in the local cemetery last week, with a chilly wind blowing, and autumn leaves underfoot.
The White Ribbon
While war often destroys families, and can tear nations apart, sometimes it forges something entirely new.