I believe that so long as one of us remembers, they are not truly gone.
As we prepare for Remembrance Day let us remember Leo Alfred St. Jacques.
Leo was born in the Town of Sturgeon Falls in 1923. And thanks to the Depression, left school at age 14 to work as a mechanic and contribute to the family income.
Apr 24, 2022 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
Carrying on with the theme of the weekend - CAF mess culture, an RSM’s perspective.
Messes originate with how European armies fed themselves. Soldiers, having been issued their rations by the QM banded together to cook it.
Nov 11, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/ It’s #RemembranceDay2019 and I’d like to share my thoughts on what both remembrance and service mean to me.
Let’s start with remembrance - the intent of this day is to remember those who went before us and “gave their tomorrow’s for our today.”
/2 What did they give their lives for? In the words of the Constitution it could be “peace, order and good government”, or it could be something else, something more profound?