...2005 was the Year of the Veteran?
For more, please refer to my original 11 Days of Remembrance miniseries from November 2011.
Thursday 8 November 2012
11 Days of Remembrance: Did You Know That...
Did you know that...
...2005 was the Year of the Veteran?
...the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, located at the Hamilton Airport, is home to one of two Lancaster Bombers in the world that is still capable of flight?
...the cemetery behind St. Paul's Anglican Church on Hwy#6 in Glanford has buried 14 men who were killed during flight training at the Hamilton Airport between 1941-1943 (there are two more men buried at a Synagogue in Brantford)?
...the cadet program was originally created to train young men for war?
...the man Sir Winston Churchill named the Saviour of Ceylon, Retired Air Commodore Leonard Birchall, was Canadian?
Well, now you know!
For more, please refer to my original 11 Days of Remembrance miniseries from November 2011.
...2005 was the Year of the Veteran?
For more, please refer to my original 11 Days of Remembrance miniseries from November 2011.
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