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There would be a day- there must be a day- when he would come back to Gramarye with a new Round Table which had no corners, just as the world had none- a table without boundaries between the nations who would sit to feast there. The hope of making it would lie in culture. If people could be persuaded to read and write, not just eat and make love, there was still a chance that they might come to reason."

- T.H. White; "The Once and Future King"

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1 Engineer Support Unit

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Today in Military History

March 14

1862:

The Royal Regiment of Canada: Ready Aye Ready, and Nec Aspera Terrant (Difficulties do not daunt)

2002:

3PPCLI BG with C Coy 2PPCLI, were on Day 2 of Operation HARPOON, tasked to close with and destroy Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters on the "Whales Back", a mountain in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, near Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The Battle Group was part of 3 Brigade (Rakassans) 101st Airborne, as part of Operation ANACONDA. It was Canada's first combat operation since the Korean War and the first Battalion level helicopter assault onto a hot LZ. The Troops went in heavy at 3,000 metres plus and made history.

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