Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

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

If you are able, save for them a place inside you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

- Major Michael Davis O’Donnell

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Military Word Of The Day

1 CMBG

1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group

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Today in Military History

August 31

1864:

American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia, defended by troops under Confederate General John Bell Hood.

1907:

Great Britain, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.

1916:

Canadian casualties to date: 27,212 wounded, 8,644 dead, 2,005 missing

1939:

Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an pretext to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.

1939:

The Royal Canadian Dental Corps is authorized

1992:

Canada sends 750 troops to Somalia

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