…103 of them died.
Read this Earl McRae column in today’s Ottawa Sun
The Canadian Vietnam Veterans Association, with branches across Canada, has not been invited to the Remembrance Day service this morning. If the association, or any individual Canadian Vietnam vets, wish to use the War Memorial for wreath laying to honour their Canadian comrades, along with our soldiers in all the wars, they will have to do so detached from the official ceremony and—as they have in the past—when eyes are looking the other way.
“I’ve got The Wall in Washington to go to,” says Doug Carey, 58, retired security guard who lives in Carleton Place with his wife Pat, a restorative-care worker at a nursing home in town. “That’s where I feel welcome. I’ve been there about eight times. Many of my buddies’ names are on that wall.”
[…] He was promoted to corporal in the field. His buddies nicknamed him Wild Man. And Canuck. He flew the Canadian flag on his one-man makeshift tent. “I wore a Labatt’s 50 bottle cap on a chain around my neck.”
…And today I say God bless those brave and honorable Canadians who fought against communism and for freedom with our ally the United States, and thank you.
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