Volume - 2 Edition 14 Week Ending April 12, 2008 IN THIS ISSUE No one likes war · No one likes war · Auschwitz leaves PM speechless · After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield · Our youth show they care about Canada's fallen soldiers · Branch 50 Committee Changes · Paul Beaulne, 59 · RCL Branch 50 Players Advance in District 'C' Shuffleboard Tournament · Special Wartime Delivery · Hampton students seek help with project · Inquest rules Diana unlawfully killed · Governor General declares national memorial centre officially open The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is a · Dutch man finds bracelet; reaches out for local vet; Lost at end of Second cemetery in France containing Canadian World War, artifact to be returned to family of Archie Gunn and British soldiers who were killed during · No peace from war: Mother fights for soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress the Dieppe Raid in 1942. 944 members of disorder the Allied Armed Forces are interred at · Mercredi wants memorial to honour aboriginal veterans Dieppe, of which 707 are Canadian. · Media Advisory: Ceremony to Remember the Battle of Vimy Ridge Credit: Wkiipedia · Local History: Women served proudly Last Tuesday evening, I had the · Heroism: one moment is all it takes honour and pleasure to be the guest · The 'Vimy effect' - 91 years later speaker at a mess dinner, marking the · ‘You felt really proud to be a Canadian’ 84th anniversary of the Royal · Malta at war: The view from the air Canadian Air Force and the 90th · Air Force Appreciation Day: Statement by the Minister of National Defence. birthday of the Royal Air Force. · Dollars For Lives: The True Insanity Of The War Against Terrorism · Spring's poppy When Major Matt Joost extended the · 91 Years Ago Today: Vimy Ridge invitation for April Fool's Day, my · In-House Pool League Results instinct was that it was from one of my · Veterans, dignitaries mark Vimy Ridge pals playing a joke. But it was the real · Wounded Warriors program helps soldiers, families in time of need thing and was followed up by a letter · Concert at Welland Legion will raise funds for wounded soldiers from Lt.-Gen. Angus Watt, the popular · Vimy Hero's New Headstone bears Victoria Cross designation and charismatic chief of the air staff. · Pearl Cornioley, WWII British Secret Agent, Dies Earlier that day, news broke that the · A hero returns to Holland University of Ottawa's student · Women create 100 Izzy dolls to send off to Canadian soldiers; Soldiers give newspaper would cease accepting knitted keepsakes to children in war zones armed forces recruiting ads. · Grey-skies anniversary · Soldiers fighting secret war The only words to describe this · For soldiers, love is a battlefield proscription are outrage and disgust. · Veterans Affairs Minister Honours New Brunswickers In fairness to the paper, it was not an · Canadian soldier honoured 92 years after death editorial decision. It was thrust upon · Crayola connection; Soldier from Peterborough hands out crayons to the weekly by a student-body vote. Afghan children · Veterans humbled, honoured by award. The students who voted against · Pelham vets bang the drum; engaged in new struggle for a memorial park recruiting ads are in their comfortable · Dashing Prince picks up his wings – next stop the Navy pews because 118,223 Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen gave up their lives against forces of evil in defence of liberty in two world wars, The Royal Canadian Legion, Fred Gies Branch 50 (Ontario) Page 1 WEBNEWS Volume - 2 Edition 14 Week Ending April 12, 2008 Korea, peace-keeping assignments University of Ottawa students have Sunday, April 06, 2008 and Afghanistan. besmirched the escutcheons of flyers PAT MACADAM, The Ottawa Sun Section: Miscellaneous such as George Beurling, Johnny Another 300,000 Canadian Fauquier, Stan Turner, Robert servicemen and women were Hyndman, Dr. "Hap" Kennedy, wounded. Of every 100 aircrew, 51 Auschwitz leaves PM Douglas Bader, Guy Gibson, VC, were killed in action. speechless "Laddie" Lucas, "Ginger" Coffey, Are they aware that the barbarians "Skeets" Ogilvie, Leonard Cheshire, were at the gate when German U- VC, Billy Bishop, VC, Hampton Gray, Boats prowled the Atlantic and sank VC, and David Hornell, VC warships and merchant vessels off Have they ever heard of "Smokey" Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Smith, VC, Jack Wallace, Military Halifax? Cross, Tommy Fuller, DSO and Two Have they heard of SS Caribou, the Bars, David Currie, VC, Bert Cape Breton-Newfoundland ferry that Lawrence, MC, George Blackburn, was torpedoed off Port aux Basques MC, Cecil Merritt, VC, Andrew by U-69 with the loss of 136 lives? Mynarski, VC, and "Long Robbie" The entire 32-man crew went down Robertson, George Medal? with Caribou. Stephen Harper knelt alone yesterday at Have they seen man's inhumanity to the foot of the Death Wall Memorial, a grey Does the name Jake Warren mean man first-hand? I have. I paid my slate monument in a section of Auschwitz anything to them? Jake passed away respects to Jews who entered Dachau where several thousand people were last week. He had a distinguished concentration camp and died in the executed. Visibly moved, he turned and career in Canada's public service and still standing ovens. I visited walked slowly out of the courtyard, served as Canada's ambassador in Plotzenzee in Berlin where madman swallowing hard. He did not say a word Washington and High Commissioner Adolf Hitler murdered thousands of before beginning a private tour of the to the United Kingdom. His frigate, plotters. They died hanging from piano grounds. HMCS Valleyfield, was torpedoed off wire or were guillotined. Credit: Peter Andrews, Reuters Newfoundland. Have they ever spoken to a neighbour Harper writes poignant message, but Do they think the United States armed who never knew his or her father who keeps thoughts private. forces had 56 bases in Newfoundland now sleeps in a war grave in a far-off AUSCHWITZ, Poland - Prime Minister during World War II for the cod country? Stephen Harper is no fan of small talk, fishing? None is old enough to have and is said to like nothing better than No one likes war, but as Edmund experienced an air raid drill. I have. spending time alone with a good book. Burke wrote: "The price of liberty is Sirens wailed. All lights were True to his nature, Mr. Harper paid his eternal vigilance," and "the only thing extinguished. respects yesterday afternoon at the necessary for the conquest of evil is My father, a World War I veteran, most infamous Nazi death camp in a that good men do nothing." donned his tin helmet, slipped his air manner that is becoming familiar to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt raid precaution armband on his sleeve Canadians -- he did not utter a word perhaps said it best when he reduced and walked the neighbourhood to about how it felt to visit Auschwitz, the war to the lowest common ensure the blackout was being place where Nazi Germany denominator. He said, during one of observed. implemented its "final solution" with his radio fireside chats: "I don't like ruthless efficiency, killing about 1.5 He was one of the lucky ones. He war; Eleanor doesn't like war and my million people, most of them Jews. came home alive. Eleven days before little Scottie dog, Fala, doesn't like the Armistice, a shell dropped into his As he emerged from the small, dark war". gun battery and killed his entire crew. red brick building that once housed an ENJOY FREEDOM Sgt.-Maj. John Angus MacAdam early version of the Nazi gas survived because he happened to be chambers and crematoriums, Mr. When I surveyed my audience of 125- standing behind his horse that took Harper took a pass on reflecting plus retired RCAF veterans and the brunt of the blast. The horse was publicly on what the tour had meant to serving officers who slip the surly killed and my father's legs were him, choosing to bypass the bonds of Earth and reach out to touch peppered by shrapnel passing under journalists who accompanied him here the Face of God, I thought: Do those its belly. before heading off to the scene of the silly buggers at U of O realize the nearby Birkenau camp. impact of their stupidity? Do the Serving in Canada's military is students realize that if ordinary sometimes a duty but always an But Mr. Harper did leave his Canadians had not put their lives on honour. Believe me, if my degrees impressions behind, handwritten in hold and on the line they might not were from the University of Ottawa, blue ink in a guest book kept by the now enjoy freedom, that they might be there would be three sheepskins Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. studying in German or Japanese? returned to the registrar by courier. It read: "We are witness here to the Page 2 The Royal Canadian Legion, Fred Gies Branch 50 (Ontario) Week Ending April 12, 2008 WEBNEWS Volume - 2 Edition 14 vestiges of unspeakable cruelty, it "a deeply meaningful and powerful measured voice, Maj. Levi Dunton horror and death. Let us never forget gesture in countering hatred." explained to the small circle of Army these things and work always to officers and their spouses what had "This act of remembrance signals to prevent their repetition. gone wrong in his marriage since he Canadians and to the world that the returned home from Iraq in 2005. He "Lord, bless the souls of those who lessons of the Holocaust must not only had trouble being involved with his suffered and perished here, and be remembered, but acted upon so family, he said.