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I think back to the efforts and sacrifices of our men and women, especially of the Canadian troops. Canada proportionally likely provided a greater percentage of their population to the war effort. Consider these facts: the male population of service age men in Canada in 1941 was 2,474,000 with 1,029,510 of those enlisted. That's an enlistment rate of over 41%! Further, those numbers don't include the men of the Merchant Marine who faced as much danger as any of the other branches. 38,530 Canadians died in WWII and 60,409 were wounded or injured. 1,465 Canadian Merchant Men also died. I have to admit one my personal annoyances is when Canada gets lumped under and included in the British efforts to end WWII but in any event please remember to thank a Vet and if you're fortunate enough to know or encounter a WWII vet carefully shake his hand, thank him, and if able buy him a drink.
I think Sapper all nations that answered the call's in the world wars they all suffered Australia in WWI only had a population of @5 million souls so there was not many families in Australia that were not touched by the reaper.
First World War KIA 4 August 1914 to 31 March 1921 **61,678** consensus had the original figure of 60,000 with 125,000 WIA ** I gather the revised No.'s are taking into account better records and those that may have DOW after the armistice.
Second World War KIA 3 September 1939 to 30 June 1947 39,657
May their sacrifices never be forgotten RIP.
Either way whichever way you look at it no one really wins in war the affects of which are felt through generations WWI decimated the male populations of the combatants whilst WWII repayments to America by Britain for the lend lease agreement were finally fulfilled in the 1990's.
I'd like to see waring countries politicians sort the disagreements out in a locked room with baseball bats sadly that will never happen and unfortunately the world will always have the insidious fog of war hanging around it's neck until the world is turned into a dust bowl.
Flanders field and poppies is a touch stone.
My first trip to France happened to be in early November maybe 30 years ago and on 11/11 by chance, we decided to take the metro to visit the Arc d’ Triumph. Imagine our ignorant surprise to pop out and see the official remembrance by the president et al at a modest distance at their flame. Very solemn and impressive. As an American IMHO it was an eye-opener to see the perspective of the French on Remembrance Day….and reflect on them and their Commonwealth allies for their sacrifices and a lost generation. Reinforced when seeing a plaque in Notre Dame delineating the casualties by each nation in the first WW.
He died on Dominion Day. The text chosen is an unusual one: "Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me; because I live, ye shall live also."
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Pvt. Herbert Allen Jarman
Co. B, 314th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division.
KIA from a shell fragment wound in the vicinity of Montigny France, 14 November 1944.
Buried in the US Military Cemetery, Epinal, France.
One of my maternal-side great uncles. He was a month into his 20th year. I can't help but think of him this time each year.
The Castreau regime in Canada has ordered that no prayers are to be made by military chaplains at Remembrance Day ceremonies, purportedly on the basis that some attendees might be offended. Apparently the opinions of those being commemorated are irrelevant.
If the Chaplains are unwilling to disobey that sort of order they probably should not be chaplains. Acts 5:29
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
proportionally likely provided a greater percentage of their population to the war effort. Consider these facts: the male population of service age men in Canada in 1941 was 2,474,000 with 1,029,510 of those enlisted. That's an enlistment rate of over 41%! Further, those numbers don't include the men of the Merchant Marine who faced as much danger as any of the other branches. 38,530 Canadians died in WWII and 60,409 were wounded or injured. 1,465 Canadian Merchant Men also died. I have to admit one my personal annoyances is when Canada gets lumped under and included in the British
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