Showing posts with label the great war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the great war. Show all posts

04 March 2025

GAME OF GROANS... ZELENSKYY REALLY, REALLY BENDS THE KNEE...

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-- "Zelenskyy said, ‘it is time to make things right. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.’ The White House has yet to weigh in on the proposal." --

And Dog Fraud says, 'Hold my Beer!' 

Yessirree... a pissin' match with the 'Leader of the Free World'... sounds like a plan.

12 April 2022

10 November 2007

I'll bet you didn't know...


About the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice... at Arlington National Cemetery.
It was in this spirit of friendship that in 1925 Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King first proposed a memorial to the large number of United States citizens who enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces, and lost their lives during World War I.

Because the Canadians entered the war long before the United States, many Americans enlisted in Canada to join the fighting in Europe.

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08 November 2007

Reprise - John Henry Foster Babcock

World War I was a long time ago.
He looks up, suddenly confused. Someone reminds him that he is Canada's last surviving veteran from the First World War.

“I guess I'm the last,” he says. A pause. Then, he adds, “Am I?” turning to his wife for confirmation. She nods and puts a hand on his.

“It takes a while for it to sink in,” she explains.
See his attestation papers here.

In the 1901 Addington Cty. census.

In the 1911 Frontenac Cty. census

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