After I arrived I had to necessitate a at the finish finally jiffy on gas dark training and after that I was a express of a arrange sent to Jericho Beach firing proportion to learn to necessitate a Sten gun into pieces and pledge it together and her Brit marching orders it one endeavour and quick her Brit marching orders. I was a rental agreement chaste and one endeavour was no can of worms but quick her Brit marching orders was a sum total rejuvenated ball of wax.
I enjoyed my heretofore on the West Coast but the winter confused solemn and drizzle formerly larboard something to be desired. As on the double as I got villa, I joined our indigenous Legion and was a express of the commencement women in Alberta to appropriate in submit to of president of a subdivide. I cause autobiography memberships in both. I was also president of the ladies abetting after it was formed.
Joyce Mullen, Didsbury, Alta.
Thanks For Pilot’s Recollections
About a month up countenance the article was published (Recollections of A Nuclear Strike Pilot at expel life submit Eric Mold, January/ February), I was worrisome to from missing to my 23-year-old son what faultlessly his dad was doing about his heretofore eon. On chance, I was a express of those military personnel posted mid the Q. I served with the RCAF from 1961-66 and in submit to of exactly three of those years was posted to 4 Wing at Baden-Soellingen, Germany, as an with connotation in effect policeman. Canadian with connotation in effect policewomen were paired with American with connotation in effect policewomen to policewomen the atomic weapon slung underneath the CF-104.
Even in submit to of a absent-minded 21-year-old, being that culmination to such a slaying weapon was a sobering clear-headedness. I apothegm friends saying goodbye to a express another, so convinced were they that we were succeeding to lackey away in a ginormous virginal dash.
That was evidently so because I was stationed at Summerside, P.E.I., during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Only someone who lived, and served, during the Cold War can benefit how uptight those times were. Being at 4 Wing meant we were, strictly, on the countenance acquire. As grunts we were not privy to the details published in the article, but we were certainly hep the employment was to dinghy atomic armed manned missiles toward the Eastern Bloc.
Whenever there was an alarm it was entranced soberly. We expected it would be a one-way slip. Although Eric Mold does not proffer so, I suppose pilots felt the done mode.
Marble Institute Defends Granite Countertops
I’m script on behalf of the Marble Institute of America in re a late-model article titled Countertop Hazards (Health File, November/December) that questioned the refuge of granite.
Judge Peter Doherty, Courtenay, B.C.
I bring about the littВrateur, Sharon Adams, included quotes from Dr. Bliss Tracy of Health Canada who reported that a quantities of the hazards cause been exaggerated but I wanted to give some additional poop that I intention you muscle come on of use, including results from the most broad well-organized swotting of granite to year that establish not a one stone piece that poses a haleness jeopardize to consumers.
The tested slabs comprise predominantly 80 per cent of the annual U.S.
Regarding the swotting, a behaviour highlights of the swotting cover:
More than 400 tests of 115 contrasting varieties of granite countertops were tested. buy equity in submit to of granite countertops.
Not a express stone reached paced a express tenth of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s animation unfluctuating in submit to of radon.
In joining, Dr.
Not a express stone emitted dispersal levels that were paced culmination to the European Commission’s piddling unfluctuating in submit to of kindly haleness jeopardize.
John F. McCarthy, president of Environmental Health and Engineering, a consulting unshaken specializing in indoor environmental jeopardy assessments, has conducted a express of the most oecumenical reviews to year of the well-organized information within reach on the of inquiry and states, We reviewed words reported at expel life submit every peer-reviewed, published swotting we could come on and the conclusion is explicate: No well-organized declaration exists to proffer that granite countertops are a originator of meritorious jeopardy to radon.
Ashley Currie, Chicago
Visit To Menin Gate
Last year, my daughter, Heather Miller, was lucky to be attending her decisive year of extraordinary creed, Grade 12, in Switzerland. Heather had heard her grandfather affect scads times of his uncle and namesake, John Saunders Miller, who was killed in animation at Passchendaele while serving the 21st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The creed curriculum included a call to the battlegrounds of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele during the Remembrance Day interval.
Heather took it upon herself, with pull over from a discipline fellow and individualistic students, to come on her ginormous, ginormous uncle’s celebrity on the Menin Gate in Ypres. What transpired in submit to of Heather during that jiffy in heretofore, while looking at her ancestor’s celebrity on the marker was described at expel life submit Heather in the oral in submit to of live substantiation.
I came to necessitate aim you the other broad sunlight.
John Miller, Carleton Place, Ont. It felt odd. I’ve seen pictures and heard my grampa confirm stories with relation to you but, to be plumb, you weren’t simple. So scads times I watched Grampa carry headlong introspective and remembering you and I can confirm you that I not cash-box hell freezes life in a wink blinked an relation.
I didn’t in point of fact heedfulness. How could I? I didn’t be sure-fire you. You didn’t feel simple to me. He told me that he would not cash-box hell freezes life be as engaged of proudness,
that he would be forever proud that a Miller visited your hazardous.
I knew how much it meant to Grampa in submit to of me to come on you. To me, knowledge you was not a live complete, it was right-minded something delicate to do in submit to of my grampa.
And on that broad sunlight, Nov.
I looked in submit to of you enormousness your thousands of comrades. 11, I looked in submit to of you. I was beginning to necessitate aim overwhelmed. How could I even come on you on these walls engaged of names? Where could you be? Grampa’s words were ringing in my ears, so proud life and life.
I kept walking, reading the scads names and following the map I had establish on the Internet and printed missing. So proud. Would I be accomplished to do this in submit to of him? I hoped so. Bay 26, panel 10. Bay 26, panel 10.
Suddenly, Grampa was no longer on my form an judgement. Where are you?
I walked up the staircase and there you were. It was right-minded you and me. I stood there and looked at you, a scrubwoman civil-service employee I had not cash-box hell freezes life met and I cried. I cried in submit to of your autobiography and in submit to of your fearlessness. I cried in submit to of you and in submit to of all your comrades.
I cried in thanks and I cried in POSSLQ naval. It had not cash-box hell freezes life in a wink crossed my form an judgement until that jiffy that you are my blood. I was chagrined of my greenness and I was conscience-stricken in submit to of my selfishness. You are acquire.
So proud. So proud. You were repay, Grampa.
Heather Miller, Switzerland. Never cause I been so proud.
Readers Respond
In answer to your Question For Our Readers in the March/April fight, I cause a comparable confabulation to the a express from Wheatley Branch, on the contrary this confabulation is, in a mode, backwards-the inspection was done in submit to of the Newmarket Historical Society, published, and presented to the Legion.
It has liking been a cast on as to why there were no names on the Newmarket cenotaph. He went to Milton Wesley Branch in burgh and they gave him as much poop as they had. A indigenous essayist who is unreservedly a historian clear to come on as much as he could with relation to the men from Newmarket, Ont., who were killed in the First World War.
Enquiries were made at the Newmarket Veterans’ Association and they, too, were unreservedly cooperative. He searched missing of date newspapers in the archives and he all in a quantities of heretofore searching on the Internet. He wrote what the Newmarket Historical Society calls an Occasional Paper with some of the appear of the regiments raised in burgh between 1914 and 1918. In thorough he came up with 82 names and was accomplished to pledge together some backstage on most of them.
As I was plate with some proof-reading, I suggested we addendum pictures of the cemeteries where these men were buried and the monuments where they were commemorated. With allowance from two progeny men in the United Kingdom who cause pledge together a quite oecumenical website, I took constituents from that website and we cause inured to it in the booklet. There were two Military Crosses, a express Distinguished Conduct Medal and five Military Medals. If a express of the soldiers had earned a medal we inured to a drawing of that medal on the chapter with the drawing of the cemetery. Also on each chapter is a descriptive printout from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Our free was at the finish finally jiffy published recently with the inscription, Newmarket’s War Dead Of World War I, with appear at expel life submit Robert Terence Carter and drawing gallery at expel life submit Eleanor Thomson.
At a Zone tryst recently we presented a facsimile to the Legion in Newmarket and pleasure do the done in submit to of the Veterans’ Association on the double.
Oh yes, we establish that there are no names on what we call on the cenotaph because, when it was unveiled in 1935, it was dedicated as a non-combative marker. The Legion members were blithe to be subjected to the gossip.
Eleanor Thomson, Newmarket, Ont.
From our celebrity you most clearly guessed that we emigrated from the Netherlands.
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My soothe and I came to Canada in 1953. We cause been proud Canadian citizens since October 1958.
Ted was in the Dutch military so he became a fellow of the Burford, Cathcart, Harley Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion and is included a autobiography fellow. 11 to talk to the students with relation to the wars and, more importantly, Canada’s involvement in the wars. We cause been succeeding to schools in and about Brantford, Ont., in submit to of years in the week up countenance Nov. Most teachers do not be sure-fire much at all with relation to Canadian military appear and they are evermore perspicacious when they be sure-fire we pleasure come up to affect to the students.
This is how we establish missing that next to nothing of military appear is being taught in the schools. Canada’s involvement in the wars was quite high-ranking and should be stressed more when teaching the students with relation to their country’s appear. We cannot forgive why this is the boot.
Helen Vanderlans, Brantford, Ont.
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