Earlier today Royal Canadian Legion Branch 25 President Michael Barbour participated in a Veterans Day Ceremony hosted by Touro University California on their campus, which sits on the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The event was littered with poppies, and had a Canadian flare with the reading of “in Flanders Field” and the laying of a Royal Canadian Legion wreath. Below are some of the pictures from the event.
Liberty School District and Liberty Elementary School are located adjacent to Liberty Cemetery in Petaluma, which the Royal Canadian Legion, US Branch #25 helps to maintain. This year saw the return of Liberty’s annual Veterans Day assembly, and the branch was there yesterday at the event to distribute poppies once again.
The Royal Canadian Legion was also represented at the virtual Veterans Day Service hosted by Touro University California.
Note that this is a personal archive. The original video for this event is available at https://youtu.be/ODqNH1IlGOI
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Join Touro University California in honoring our Veterans for a Virtual Celebration hosted by the TUC Military Club.
The live event aired on Wednesday, November 11, 2021 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Original description:
Join TUC in honoring our Veterans for a Virtual Celebration.
Hosted by the TUC Military Club
Thursday, November 11, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Join the Celebration (No Registration Required)
This event is free, and all are welcome to join us as we celebrate the men and women who have kept our country safe throughout the years.
Special Guests include:
The Royal Canadian Legion was also represented at the virtual Veterans Day Service hosted by Touro University California.
Note that this recording is an archive. The original video for this event is available at https://youtu.be/W0Nt3Q4eNmI
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Join Touro University California in honoring our Veterans for a Virtual Celebration hosted by the TUC Military Club.
The live event aired on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Original description – Touro University California invites you to join our virtual Veterans Day celebration on Wednesday, November 11 from 12 to 1 p.m. via Zoom. TUC Military Club President and Master of Ceremonies, Kevin Calvelo, will host a packed program celebrating our veterans through poetry, music and special guest speakers. There will also be a moment of silence in honor of our departed veterans followed by taps led by a bugler from the US Air Force Band of the Golden West. This event is free, and all are welcome to join us as we celebrate the men and women who have kept our country safe throughout the years.
Special Guests include:
We wanted to begin this Veterans Day with an item that was shared with us by someone in our local community.
I would like to draw your attention to this Collaborative Comic Book Project to remember and honour veterans, done in 2017, in Palo Alto California. The electronic versions of the book are available free of charge on the CASP website. Although the project was held in the Bay Area, the stories are told by people of several countries, and focus on various wars all over the world and over a span of many years. The project was also presented in Montreal, Canada, in May 2018 at the Maison Hurtubise, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec.
The second volume of the artists’ book, Memories, is a collection of personal stories.
I am including a press release and some pictures of the Artists’ book, Thank you for your Service.
Best,
Danièle Archambault, Ph.D.
Linguist and Cartoonist
CASP Artist-in-Residence
In 2017, the traditional CASP Meet the Artists of Cubberley event occurred on November 11, Veterans Day, a public holiday in the US and other parts of the world that celebrates and honors military veterans. For this occasion, we invited the community to participate in a Collaborative Comic Book Project, as a way to Collectively Remembering and Saying Thanks to our veterans.
The community responded enthusiastically to our invitation. We collected 90 pages of short comic strips, written by adults, students and children, who generously contributed their time, art and personal stories to this project. The original pages, created on a special 8.5×5.5 page of archival paper, have been bound into an artists’ book: a series of three books – Stories, Memories and Imageries. It was edited, printed, and hand-bound by Danièle Archambault, Servane Briand and Paloma Lucas at Cubberley Artist Studios in Palo Alto, California. The pages have also been scanned for digital archives and assembled into an eBook available for all online.
The original book in a special display box was on show at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco October 2018. A copy of the book (housed in an ammo box) was gifted to the City of Palo Alto Library on Veterans Day 2018. We also hosted a book presentation in April 2018 and a workshop on visual storytelling in November 2018.
Direct links to Veterans Day Collaborative Comic Book electronic versions:
PDF: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/64660
eBook: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=64659
Royal Canadian Legion, US Branch #25 