Monthly Archives: June 2021

Thank you to all our volunteers at ANC

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An item from the Memorial Day Flowers Foundation.

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Dear Michael,

This Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), volunteers handed out and placed 105,000 flowers to honor those who have served our country.

While still fresh in our memories, here is a brief overview of what many of you helped accomplish over the Memorial Day Weekend.
Placing flowers in the rain at Alexandria National Cemetery
ANC volunteer making a floral tribute
Family Pass handout on Memorial Avenue
On Sunday at ANC, 350 local volunteers placed 32,000 flowers at sponsored sections. Associates from DGCI and Ball SB handed out 18,000 roses in small tote bags to Family Pass Holders as they drove into the cemetery.

On a very busy Memorial Day, CalFlowers made flowers available to be placed at every one of the 15,000 headstones at Section 60. Another 28,000 flowers were given to visitors at the Welcome Center. Family Pass Holders were handed an additional 12,000 roses by TD Bank associates.

The day before the ANC tributes began, Peraton employees placed a flower at every headstone at Alexandria National Cemetery [link]. At the T.A.P.S. convention, the Foundation presented the 400 bouquets donated by Holland America Flowers in California. These bouquets were given to the surviving families and children of warriors lost in action.
Flowers in tote bags at the ANC Welcome Center
None of this would have been possible without the amazing support we have seen and felt from our volunteers, as well as the cooperation from the Administrative Team at Arlington National Cemetery.  This is the first of many emails to show our community just what it takes to make this happen every year.  We are grateful to all the incredible volunteers who registered on the website, called, wrote emails, and even just walked up and helped in any way they could.
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New evidence of a very old war

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Front Lines
New evidence of a very old war

New evidence of a very old war

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

New evidence uncovered long after a prehistoric cemetery was discovered in Sudan suggest that its inhabitants weren’t killed in what was believed to be one of humankind’s earliest known battles but may instead have died over the course of protracted warfare.

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Military Milestones
The Battle of Ridgeway

The Battle of Ridgeway

Story by Sharon Adams

On June 1, 1866, more than 1,000 Irish Americans crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo, N.Y., and occupied the town of Fort Erie in Canada West (now Ontario).

They were members of the Fenian Brotherhood, whose invasion was part of a master plan to secure the independence of Ireland.

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Revera is offering an exclusive benefit to RCL Members and their family/friends with a 10% off the suite rate. Visit reveraliving.com

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Branches to lower flags to half-mast for 215 hours

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A message from Dominion Command.

Message from the Dominion President 

Zoom Webinar: Marc Milner on Canada’s Forgotten Overlord Role

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Note this online event scheduled for tomorrow.
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MARC MILNER

Stopping the Panzers: Canada’s Forgotten Overlord Role

June 2nd, 7:30 PM ET
The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required, but you do not need a Zoom account to watch.

CLICK HERE to Register
Historians have traditionally criticized the 3rd Canadian Division for its ‘slow’ progress after 6 June, for its failure to take Caen when it had a chance, and for succumbing to German counter-attacks and digging in on the Oak Line. But recent scholarship indicates that — Montgomery’s aspiration to get ashore and “crack about with tanks” notwithstanding — the Canadian role was to seize the Oak Line, dig in and kill the Panzer counter-attack on Operation Overlord itself.
MARC MILNER served as Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick until his retirement in 2019. He is best known for his work on naval history—his 2003 book, Battle of the Atlantic, winning the C.P. Stacey Prize for the best book in military history in Canada. His latest book, Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day (2014), won the BGen James Collins Book Prize by the US Commission on Military History.
UPCOMING WEBINARS

16 June | LCMSDS
Dr. Sarah Glassford
“A Woman’s Touch: Supporting Canadian Servicemen’s Resilience, 1943–47”
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30 June | LCMSDS
Lee Windsor
“Point 67: Canada’s Mid-Way Point in Normandy”
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14 July | LCMSDS
Alexander Fitzgerald-Black
“The Air Support Rollercoaster: Canadian Soldiers’ Morale in Normandy”
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28 July | LCMSDS
Dr. Caroline D’Amours
“‘J’irai revoir ma Normandie’: French-Canadian Infantry Units in Normandy”
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11 August | LCMSDS
Dr. Matthew Barrett
“Canadian Army Officer Discipline and Martial Justice, 1944–45”
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25 August | LCMSDS
Marie Eve Vaillancourt, JBC
“Remembering the Canadians in Normandy”
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8 September | LCMSDS
Geoff Hayes
“The Canadians in Normandy: Another Go-Around”
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Click here to listen to the latest episode of On War & Society: A Curious Case of Shell Shock with Joy Porter.

On War & Society features authors discussing their research, the challenges associated with doing history, and life ‘behind the book.’
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