National Updates from The Royal Canadian Legion

Another update on yesterday’s Centenary events from Dominion Command.


Today, The Royal Canadian Legion turns 100

Royal Canadian Legion Turns 100

Today marks a historical milestone!

Exactly 100 years ago, on July 17, 1926, the Canadian Legion was formally incorporated. For a century, we have stood as Canada’s fiercest advocate for Veterans, of Remembrance, and the backbone of communities from coast to coast to coast.

You can review the “100 Years of Service: The Royal Canadian Legion: at:

https://legion.ca/ourstory/

One of the activities being promoted as part of the Centenary is the “Don’t Forget to Remember” Campaign.

SHARE YOUR MESSAGE OF REMEMBRANCE

Remembrance isn’t limited to one day. It lives in the stories we carry, the names we speak, and the gratitude we pass from one generation to the next.

To mark 100 years of The Royal Canadian Legion’s commitment to Remembrance, we’re inviting Canadians to come together in a shared tribute. Write a message about what Remembrance means to you, share a name or memory, or leave a few words of thanks.

Each handwritten note will become part of a commemorative mural honouring service, sacrifice, and the memory of the Fallen.

Branch 25 (San Francisco) sent each of its members coloured post-it notes to allow them to participate.  Members of the Branch were also present at Canadian ex-pat events throughout the Bay Area over the past few weeks.

Contributions from Branch 25 (San Francisco) and members of the Canadian ex-pat community in the Bay Area /
Contributions de la filiale 25 (San Francisco) et desmembres de la communauté canadienne expatriée de la région de la baie

The Drone Age (Part 2): “A deadly kill zone unlike anything warfare has ever seen.”

An item from the Legion Magazine.


Weekly Feature
Observation Post

Ukranian forces calibrate a “Baba Yaga” heavy lift drone in 2024. [АрміяІнформ/Wikipedia]

The Drone Age (Part 2): “A deadly kill zone unlike anything warfare has ever seen.”

STORY BY RICHARD FOOT

This is the second of a two-part series examining the impact that drones and autonomous weapons are having on modern warfare. Read Part 1.

On the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russia, death is delivered not by artillery, tanks or machine guns, but via the spinning rotors of hobbyist-style, explosive-laden drones, lethal enough to kill a section of infantry or destroy an armoured vehicle.

Welcome to the battlefield of the 21st century, where, according to Francis Farrell, a reporter with The Kyiv Independent, “drones fly further and further with every month, and closer to the front line, reality breaks down into a deadly kill zone unlike anything warfare has ever seen.”

READ MORE

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The Briefing
The Briefing

Herman Mol shares his experiences as a Dutch teenager during the Second World War at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in 2010. [Courtesy Herman Mol]

WW II Hunger Winter survivor recalls the liberation of the Netherlands

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

It was May 1958 when Dutch-born immigrant Herman Mol began his Canadian dream. Though the war had been over for 13 long years, and while Mol himself had managed well over that time, the Netherlands was still a country in healing.

Career opportunities had brought him across the Atlantic to the shores of Halifax. From there, he was bound for Ontario and, in due course, a promising future as a newspaper linotype operator and typesetter.

The new Canadian thus settled into life among many of those who, more than a decade earlier, had played a significant role in Holland’s liberation.

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