Monthly Archives: March 2022

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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USNSCC – Arkansas Division Annual Inspection 2022

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Earlier today the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) – Arkansas Division held their 2022 Annual Inspection of the Pacific Central Region in Building 2 of the US Coast Guard on Yerba Buena Island. As one of the sponsors of this cadet corps, President Michael Barbour was on hand for the event. As a part of the festivities, Comrade Barbour presented their Commanding Officer, LTJG Gabriel Mikulich, a cheque for the Legion’s annual donation to the group.

Comrade Barbour also handed out this year’s Royal Canadian Legion Cadet Medal of Excellence, which is awarded annually to the cadet having shown a high degree of participation and leadership in the area of citizenship and in meeting and enhancing the aims and objectives of the cadet organization. While the specific criteria for the award are developed by the cadet leadership, the broad view of the award is that the individual must be seen by peers and superiors to exemplify the model cadet and enhance his/her corps status by cooperation with peers and superiors, comradeship, promotion of goodwill and morale within the corps, supporting and assisting corps members, and enhancing the image of cadets in the local community. This year’s recipient of the Royal Canadian Legion Cadet Medal of Excellence was Seaman Olivia Kessor.

Pictures from the event are below.

Webinar: Lianne C. Leddy on Cold War Colonialism

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These webinars, which are offered in partnership with Dominion Command, may be of interest to some members.

Cold War Colonialism: Anishinaabek Responses to Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

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LIANNE C. LEDDY

Cold War Colonialism: Anishinaabek Responses to Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

March 30th, 7:00 PM ET

The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required. Click HERE.

In this talk, Leddy will discuss Serpent River First Nation’s resilience in confronting colonial extractive practices during the Cold War period. Relying on oral and archival research methods, Leddy argues that Anishinaabek responses to the devastating impacts of uranium mining in our territory were framed by a powerful understanding of health and homeland.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

17 March | Guelph Military Lecture Series
David Borys
“Civilians at the Sharp End: Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe, 1944–45”
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14 April | Guelph Military Lecture Series
Geoffrey Bird
“‘The torch be yours to hold it high’: Heritage, Meaning, and Remembering Well in the 21st Century”
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New Video! Smedley Butler- From General To Anti-War Activist

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An item from a fellow veterans organization in the Bay Area.

All Marines learn about two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler. But do you know the whole story?

We’re excited to bring you our next virtual “Meet the Author” featuring Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. In this video interview, Marines’ Memorial Foundation Chairman (and self-proclaimed capitalist) Barrie Graham talks with Katz about Smedley Butler’s storied military career and how he went from Quaker to Marine General to anti-war and anti-imperialist activist.

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About the Author:

Jonathan Myerson Katz , author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, received the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, The Big Truck That Went By, was shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and the WOLA/Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. His work appears in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. Katz has received fellowships from New America and the Logan Nonfiction Program. He lives with his wife and daughter in Charlottesville, VA.

About the Moderator:

Barrie Graham, Marine Veteran, has been a leader in the financial services industry for over 25 years, most recently serving as COO of WR Hambrecht & Co, an investment banking firm in San Francisco. Prior to WRH+Co, Graham was President & CEO of Exchange Bank and held senior management positions at Wells Fargo. Graham is Chairman of Marines’ Memorial Foundation and serves as a Board Member of Canine Companions for Independence, Empire College, Empire Law School, Truett Hurst Winery and the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation in Sonoma County.

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French developer plans condo complex on Juno Beach

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An item from the Legion Magazine that may be of particular interest to members. Note that the Juno Beach Centre themselves are less concerned with the development itself, and more concerned with the fact that the developers will need to use the sole road to the commemorative centre during the building process – effectively choking off any traffic to the historic and memorial sites.

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French developer plans condo complex on Juno Beach

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A French developer is planning to build a 70-unit condominium at the site where Canadian troops landed on D-Day, desecrating what opponents to the project are calling hallowed ground.

Local authorities in Courseulles-sur-Mer awarded a construction permit for Domaine des Dunes in February 2019. The two four-storey buildings are to go up just metres from Juno Beach, where Canadian soldiers fought and died during the June 6, 1944, invasion that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror.

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Fighting at forts of the Niagara front

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

The Niagara River runs roughly south-north between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, a vital transportation—and once communication—line in the Great Lakes. To safeguard their interests, Europeans bent on colonization and economic gain built forts at the river’s source on Lake Erie and its mouth on Lake Ontario.

In 1812, the river marked the border between the state of New York and the British colony of Upper Canada. The United States wanted to erase that border and absorb Canada—or British North America as it was known as the time—into its union.