Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



Once upon a time we knew what to do. A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre. He replied that in British culture it was the custom to hang chaps who did that sort of thing. There are many great things about India - curry, pyjamas, sitars, software engineers -- but suttee was not one of them. What a pity we're no longer capable of being 'judgmental' and 'discriminating'.

- Mark Steyn

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Today in Military History

January 12



1915:

German use of poison shells reported from Paris


1916:

An Order-in-Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War


1943:

HMCS Ville de Quebec sinks the German submarine U-224 in the western Mediterranean Sea




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