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

SLT

Second Language Training Sub-Lieutenant (SLt)

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Today in Military History

June 6

1813:

British defeat American army at Stoney Creek, Upper Canada

1944:

D-Day, Canadian casualties are described as "light"; 340 killed, 574 wounded, 47 captured

1944:

NORMANDY LANDING

1944:

NORTH-WEST EUROPE 194-45, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 5 May 45)

1944:

R.R.C. - based in Toronto. Served in England and France - parachuted in to France.

1945:

Lt. Andre van Kerre Broeck- de Sonneville Belgian Army/Resistance fighter/Dutch-French Connection walks back to Belgium barefoot after 3 years of Nazi incarceration

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