Ross Mitchell of Douglas, Man., was just 18 when he spent the summer of 1944 running around Shilo and jumping off towers in stifling heat, learning how to be a paratrooper. The jumping part was an acquired skill. The killing part, he knew well enough.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
Back in the day, some 40-plus years ago, the CANEX store was a big deal to Brian Hynes and all the military brats with whom he hung out. Born the son of an air force navigator based at Comox, B.C., Hynes saw his share of small towns and remote postings, but he never wanted for anything—the CANEX had it all.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
The Medak Pocket was, for Canada, the place where peacekeeping went to die. For Dan Drew and the other Canadians who fought in Croatia over those few days in September 1993, the salient dividing Serb and Croation forces became “Canada’s Vietnam”—an obscure battle that for years went unrecognized, its soldiers unthanked, its scars unhealed.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
