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A day to remember and give thanks
- Thread starter Dusty
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11/11 at 11:00 am, the least you can do is a minute of silence.
Thank you tool all past and current members of the military for your service providing a safe stable and free country for me to live and thrive. Remembering all that have given the ultimate sacrifice in war and peace time. Protecting this country is not a 9-5 M-F operation and requires preparation and sacrifice and I applaud their incredible efforts. I also want to acknowledge and extend sympathy to those affected by the recent tragedy at Wainwright.
My grandfather and 4 brothers went overseas in the first, one brother did not return, my grand father came back with serve injury’s.
Two uncles went overseas in the second, one a tail gunner, other tank commander, he was shot and captured, both made it back.
So I remember and think.
Two uncles went overseas in the second, one a tail gunner, other tank commander, he was shot and captured, both made it back.
So I remember and think.
I have some family military history...
Great Great Grand Uncle (father of my Great grandmother) was called up with the 3rd Victoria's Volunteer Rifles, to defend Canada from the Fenian Raids in 1866. 3VVR, was essentially formed out of the membership of a Tennis Club, I am told, out of Montreal. They served in 1866, they were recognized, only after the turn of the century... Anyone still alive that applied, received the Medal and its Bar... The Canadian Government has a LONG history of being cheap with recognizing it's Military! I have that Medal. Pte. J. Brady, 3rd V.V.R.
My great Grandfather, a Welsh Doctor, was encouraged to Join the Royal Navy, by his Mentor, who thought that the experiences would do him well. He joined, traveled across the Atlantic to North America, across the United States, in the post Civil War Period, and joined with his assigned ship, the HMS Warspite, at either San Diego, or Los Angeles, Warspite (a name that was to become famous in WW2) was at that time, the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship in the Pacific Fleet. He retired in Victoria, and there is a Plaque to his memory, on the waterfront near the Empress Hotel, relating to his Medical practice, more than his Military Service. He was an early adopter of such unusual practices, like not allowing the unwashed masses in to the Surgery to peer over the shoulder of the surgeon, and the use of equipment to sterilize operating instruments between patients. Dr. Oswald Meredith Jones.
My Grandfather, Born in the year 1900, was at Royal Military College Kingston, in the post WW1 period, when the Canadian Forces was awash in young Officers, and was trying to downsize. He was offered the opportunity to walk away from the Forces, without having to do the 7 1/2 years of obligatory service that normally comes with a four year degree (1 1/2 days service, for each day you spend in school). He was cut loose, returned home to Victoria, and proceeded to have far more fun than his folks thought was right, so they thought it would be good for him to have some responsibility. He was shipped up into the south-central interior of BC, to one of the investment Properties Great Grandfather had bought near Lillooet, and met and married my Grandmother, produced 5 kids, the youngest of which, was my father. Grandfather did not serve in WW2, but contributed to the War Effort, producing, of all things, flower seeds, as they were the fastest sprouting seeds available, and could provide a cover of greenery on any dug in or soil covered emplacements that were needed. David Campbell Jones, aka: "Joe".
I knew almost nothing of any of this history, when I applied to join the CF, essentially still hung over from Grad Night... Didn't know what i wanted to be when I grew up, but didn't think that staying home was gonna do it, and that turned in to a bit over 28 years in the Air Force as a Tech. Four Trades later, two knee surgeries and spinal fusion, they finally kicked me out, and treated me well, pretty much the whole shot.
I laid a wreath today, on the local Cenotaph, and remembered the guys that died, that I knew. John, my neighbor in the Barracks in Comox, who died in a motorcycle accident, Lonnie, who took his own life, stressing about a child he left behind on a UN tour, and Michael, a pilot that I had got to know as a decent human being, who crashed while practicing after his selection to the Snowbirds.
I will remember them!
Great Great Grand Uncle (father of my Great grandmother) was called up with the 3rd Victoria's Volunteer Rifles, to defend Canada from the Fenian Raids in 1866. 3VVR, was essentially formed out of the membership of a Tennis Club, I am told, out of Montreal. They served in 1866, they were recognized, only after the turn of the century... Anyone still alive that applied, received the Medal and its Bar... The Canadian Government has a LONG history of being cheap with recognizing it's Military! I have that Medal. Pte. J. Brady, 3rd V.V.R.
My great Grandfather, a Welsh Doctor, was encouraged to Join the Royal Navy, by his Mentor, who thought that the experiences would do him well. He joined, traveled across the Atlantic to North America, across the United States, in the post Civil War Period, and joined with his assigned ship, the HMS Warspite, at either San Diego, or Los Angeles, Warspite (a name that was to become famous in WW2) was at that time, the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship in the Pacific Fleet. He retired in Victoria, and there is a Plaque to his memory, on the waterfront near the Empress Hotel, relating to his Medical practice, more than his Military Service. He was an early adopter of such unusual practices, like not allowing the unwashed masses in to the Surgery to peer over the shoulder of the surgeon, and the use of equipment to sterilize operating instruments between patients. Dr. Oswald Meredith Jones.
My Grandfather, Born in the year 1900, was at Royal Military College Kingston, in the post WW1 period, when the Canadian Forces was awash in young Officers, and was trying to downsize. He was offered the opportunity to walk away from the Forces, without having to do the 7 1/2 years of obligatory service that normally comes with a four year degree (1 1/2 days service, for each day you spend in school). He was cut loose, returned home to Victoria, and proceeded to have far more fun than his folks thought was right, so they thought it would be good for him to have some responsibility. He was shipped up into the south-central interior of BC, to one of the investment Properties Great Grandfather had bought near Lillooet, and met and married my Grandmother, produced 5 kids, the youngest of which, was my father. Grandfather did not serve in WW2, but contributed to the War Effort, producing, of all things, flower seeds, as they were the fastest sprouting seeds available, and could provide a cover of greenery on any dug in or soil covered emplacements that were needed. David Campbell Jones, aka: "Joe".
I knew almost nothing of any of this history, when I applied to join the CF, essentially still hung over from Grad Night... Didn't know what i wanted to be when I grew up, but didn't think that staying home was gonna do it, and that turned in to a bit over 28 years in the Air Force as a Tech. Four Trades later, two knee surgeries and spinal fusion, they finally kicked me out, and treated me well, pretty much the whole shot.
I laid a wreath today, on the local Cenotaph, and remembered the guys that died, that I knew. John, my neighbor in the Barracks in Comox, who died in a motorcycle accident, Lonnie, who took his own life, stressing about a child he left behind on a UN tour, and Michael, a pilot that I had got to know as a decent human being, who crashed while practicing after his selection to the Snowbirds.
I will remember them!