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I would ask these doubters to consider whether an "open" society whose "free" citizens cannot be trusted to hold arms and ammunition at home represent an entity that should be defended in moral terms or that can be defended in military ones.

- Richard Simpkin

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SLT
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Second Language Training Sub-Lieutenant (SLt)


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Today in Military History

June 6



1813:

British defeat American army at Stoney Creek, Upper Canada


1944:

D-Day, Canadian casualties are described as "light"; 340 killed, 574 wounded, 47 captured


1944:

NORMANDY LANDING


1944:

NORTH-WEST EUROPE 194-45, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 5 May 45)


1944:

R.R.C. - based in Toronto. Served in England and France - parachuted in to France.


1945:

Lt. Andre van Kerre Broeck- de Sonneville Belgian Army/Resistance fighter/Dutch-French Connection walks back to Belgium barefoot after 3 years of Nazi incarceration




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