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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Colonel's arrest won't shake confidence in military - Windsor
This story was published in todays edition of the Fredericton NB Daily-Gleaner Newspaper.
The arrest of a Canadian Forces commander in Ontario for murder and sexual assault won't affect public confidence in military leadership at locations such as Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, says an expert.
Lee Windsor, the deputy director of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, said people at Canadian Forces Base Trenton will question that connection but not at other locations.
Canada's military was given a collective shock Monday with the allegation that the colonel in command of the country's largest air force base had killed two women and sexually assaulted two others.
Col. Russell Williams, 46, was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of Belleville and Marie France Comeau, a 38, a corporal with CFB Trenton's 437 squadron. She was killed in November.
Windsor said there's no question that Williams was a respected figure in Trenton.
"I think this is a problem that will affect the Trenton community," Windsor said. "I do not think it will have a ripple effect in places like Gagetown. The nature of the relationship between senior leadership, commanders, formations and Base Gagetown, and the people of the communities of Oromocto and Fredericton is based on their ties. It doesn't have anything to do with Trenton and I don't think that, as horrible a circumstances this is, it's not going to do anything to change the relationship here."
Ross Ingram, a retired major in the reserves, agrees.
"There are so many people in high military positions who are serving well," he said. "They are going to realize this is an exception to the rule. It's an unfortunate thing, but it's not going to affect all who are doing a good job."
Bob Lockhart said he can't recall anything similar happening in the Forces.
With the leadership group within the military being relatively small, everyone gets to know one another so well that their idiosyncrasies or failings are quite often common knowledge, said Lockhart, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the reserves.
"All of these people are weeded out, usually at the lower levels."
Lockhart said the impact of what happened in Trenton will be minimal on a well-trained, well-disciplined organization such as the Canadian Forces.
"If there is an isolated case, the speed and the justice of which it is handled will immediately restore the good reputation," he said. "If an organization of tens of thousands can be destroyed by one aberrant incident, it's not the organization we want to defend us."
The arrest of a Canadian Forces commander in Ontario for murder and sexual assault won't affect public confidence in military leadership at locations such as Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, says an expert.
Lee Windsor, the deputy director of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, said people at Canadian Forces Base Trenton will question that connection but not at other locations.
Canada's military was given a collective shock Monday with the allegation that the colonel in command of the country's largest air force base had killed two women and sexually assaulted two others.
Col. Russell Williams, 46, was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of Belleville and Marie France Comeau, a 38, a corporal with CFB Trenton's 437 squadron. She was killed in November.
Windsor said there's no question that Williams was a respected figure in Trenton.
"I think this is a problem that will affect the Trenton community," Windsor said. "I do not think it will have a ripple effect in places like Gagetown. The nature of the relationship between senior leadership, commanders, formations and Base Gagetown, and the people of the communities of Oromocto and Fredericton is based on their ties. It doesn't have anything to do with Trenton and I don't think that, as horrible a circumstances this is, it's not going to do anything to change the relationship here."
Ross Ingram, a retired major in the reserves, agrees.
"There are so many people in high military positions who are serving well," he said. "They are going to realize this is an exception to the rule. It's an unfortunate thing, but it's not going to affect all who are doing a good job."
Bob Lockhart said he can't recall anything similar happening in the Forces.
With the leadership group within the military being relatively small, everyone gets to know one another so well that their idiosyncrasies or failings are quite often common knowledge, said Lockhart, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the reserves.
"All of these people are weeded out, usually at the lower levels."
Lockhart said the impact of what happened in Trenton will be minimal on a well-trained, well-disciplined organization such as the Canadian Forces.
"If there is an isolated case, the speed and the justice of which it is handled will immediately restore the good reputation," he said. "If an organization of tens of thousands can be destroyed by one aberrant incident, it's not the organization we want to defend us."
Veteran Helps Preserve Link To Navy's Past
This story was published in todays edition of the Saint John Telegraph Journal Newspaper.
SAINT JOHN - At 96, Merrill Rumson pulls out the keyboard to his computer and scans through his pictures, looking for the image of the bell rope he made for a competition marking the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy.
Enlarge Photo Matthew Sherwood/Telegraph-JournalNaval veteran Merrill Rumson, 96, holds up one of the bell ropes he made. He was born in 1913 and the navy was formed in 1910, so he has been around almost as long.
"Bells mark time and give warnings. They are an important part of the ship," he said.
As part of the navy's centennial celebration this year, metal from the past 100 years was collected and melted down to cast a commemorative bell that will be unveiled in Ottawa in May. A new bell needs a new bell rope, Rumson said.
"I was asked to submit two ropes and they got honourable mention."
The decorative bell ropes go back to the time of sailing ships, when the crews had time on their hands during long voyages, so they developed intricate rope braiding patterns, he said.
"Ringing the bell is very important in the life of a ship," he said. "In the olden days it told the time, it gave warnings, passed messages through the ship. It was a means of communication."
Rumson was invited to a ceremony aboard HMCS Protecteur at CFB Esquimalt in Victoria, B.C., on Feb. 24 to receive a certificate for his participation, but has decided not to go because travelling with a wheelchair is too difficult.
After his ropes are shown in Victoria later this month they will be returned to him. He plans to donate one to HMCS Brunswicker to be used on a bell in Saint John. The other bell ropes in the competition were produced by veterans of the navy who joined after 1945, but Rumson was the only Second World War veteran.
The braiding of bell ropes is part of a naval tradition that Rumson first learned in 1931, when he joined the naval reserve in Saint John. He was there four years until 1935 and then went to work for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.
When the Second World War broke out, he was in Montreal and was asked to rejoin the navy as an instructor.
"I was an instructor for a couple of years and then I went to sea on a minesweeper, and then I went to a frigate," he said.
He crossed the North Atlantic several times protecting convoys supplying Britain with materials to fight the war and was on HMCS Chebogue when she was torpedoed off Ireland in 1944, killing seven of his shipmates. The frigate didn't sink but was so badly damaged she was broken up for scrap when they towed her back to Britain.
"I didn't see a thing, I was in the magazine (where the ammunition is kept), a room with no windows," he said.
The survivors were taken off and transported to Newfoundland. After the war he returned to work for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, retiring as office manager in Quebec City in 1973.
"I worked for them for 40 years. I went from the office boy to the manager," he said.
Valentines For Vets In Grand Bay-Westfield
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It's a first for the Town of Grand-Bay Westfield as it pays tribute to Valentine's Day and their local Veterans. Residents are encouraged to sign a Valentine and Mayor Grace Losier says they will be distributed to as many local vets as possible.
The Valentines are available for signing at the Town office from 9am to 5pm until Friday. Local schools will also be taking part. Losier likes the idea of acknowledging veterans outside of Remembrance Day." WAY TO GO GRACE AND FOLK'S "
Funeral Regulations Need To Change With The Times
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Inadequate funding and a cumbersome bureaucracy have left some families of veterans scrambling to find the money to cover the funeral and burial expenses of loved ones, says a report from the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman. In a toughly worded 19-page report titled Serve With Honour, Depart With Dignity, Veterans Ombudsman Pat Stogran makes seven recommendations to bring the Veterans Funeral and Burial Regulations established by Veterans Affairs Canada and administered by the Last Post Fund up to date for today’s veterans. The Last Post Fund is a non-profit organization and registered charity with roots reaching back to its founding in [...]
January 18, 2010, by Tom MacGregor
Postcard Campaign Proves Popular
Legion Magazine’s postcards for the troops campaign has taken off, with schools and individuals contacting the magazine’s office asking for more. The idea for the postcards emerged when Editor Dan Black was putting together a feature package for the November/December issue on letters written by serving members of the military from the First World War through the Second World War, the Korean War and postwar operations including Afghanistan. The feature contained many original letters collected by Library and Archives Canada as well as side stories on how the letters were delivered and replies received from Gladys Osmond of Newfoundland who has [...]
January 12, 2010
Inadequate funding and a cumbersome bureaucracy have left some families of veterans scrambling to find the money to cover the funeral and burial expenses of loved ones, says a report from the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman. In a toughly worded 19-page report titled Serve With Honour, Depart With Dignity, Veterans Ombudsman Pat Stogran makes seven recommendations to bring the Veterans Funeral and Burial Regulations established by Veterans Affairs Canada and administered by the Last Post Fund up to date for today’s veterans. The Last Post Fund is a non-profit organization and registered charity with roots reaching back to its founding in [...]
January 18, 2010, by Tom MacGregor
Postcard Campaign Proves Popular
Legion Magazine’s postcards for the troops campaign has taken off, with schools and individuals contacting the magazine’s office asking for more. The idea for the postcards emerged when Editor Dan Black was putting together a feature package for the November/December issue on letters written by serving members of the military from the First World War through the Second World War, the Korean War and postwar operations including Afghanistan. The feature contained many original letters collected by Library and Archives Canada as well as side stories on how the letters were delivered and replies received from Gladys Osmond of Newfoundland who has [...]
January 12, 2010
Canadians Quick To Embrace Postcard Campaign For Troops In Afghanistan
The blow information is from the Legion Magazine, November 17,2009. Click for the whole article. For what its worth, I am a Legion Member.
The postcards-for-troops campaign launched by Legion Magazine is catching on across the country. Students from a number of schools are turning it into a classroom project, ordering huge quantities of the postcards published in Legion Magazine’s November/December issue. In several e-mails sent to the magazine this week, the magazine has learned that students, teachers and parents are busy putting pen to paper and writing short, personalized messages on the back of the postcards, all of which are destined for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
“Students enjoy participating in campaigns such as this,” says teacher Shelley Knott of Mayerthorpe, Alta., Junior/Senior High School. “Sending postcards to the troops in Afghanistan allows them to make a big difference as a small group. It fits in with what we are trying to teach about the importance of fostering teamwork and local action with a global result.”
Knott says her community has close ties with the Lord Strathcona’s Horse because one of the school’s graduates is currently serving with that unit in Afghanistan.
Students, teachers and parents are contacting the magazine in surprising number to order more of the distinctive three postcards. As a result, thousands more have been printed and are available free of charge to Canadians of all ages who want to let the troops in Afghanistan know of their support back home.
“These postcards are a terrific idea!” says Joanne Lambert, a music and English teacher at Frank Ryan Intermediate School in Nepean, Ont. “They will connect students with the realities faced by our service personnel stationed abroad. It will make them more aware of the fact that there are many men and women over there putting their lives on the line to try and make Afghanistan a safer place. All of them are making a huge sacrifice by being away from their loved ones and from the comforts of home. They have left behind the things we all treasure, and so it is hoped our students will learn from the experience of writing to them.”
For more information on the Postcard Campaign For Troops In Afghanistan, or to request your Free Postcards, please contact: Legion Magazine 1-613-591-0116 or by e-mail: magazine@legion.ca
Postcards To The Troops Illustrations by: John Fraser
The postcards-for-troops campaign launched by Legion Magazine is catching on across the country. Students from a number of schools are turning it into a classroom project, ordering huge quantities of the postcards published in Legion Magazine’s November/December issue. In several e-mails sent to the magazine this week, the magazine has learned that students, teachers and parents are busy putting pen to paper and writing short, personalized messages on the back of the postcards, all of which are destined for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
“Students enjoy participating in campaigns such as this,” says teacher Shelley Knott of Mayerthorpe, Alta., Junior/Senior High School. “Sending postcards to the troops in Afghanistan allows them to make a big difference as a small group. It fits in with what we are trying to teach about the importance of fostering teamwork and local action with a global result.”
Knott says her community has close ties with the Lord Strathcona’s Horse because one of the school’s graduates is currently serving with that unit in Afghanistan.
Students, teachers and parents are contacting the magazine in surprising number to order more of the distinctive three postcards. As a result, thousands more have been printed and are available free of charge to Canadians of all ages who want to let the troops in Afghanistan know of their support back home.
“These postcards are a terrific idea!” says Joanne Lambert, a music and English teacher at Frank Ryan Intermediate School in Nepean, Ont. “They will connect students with the realities faced by our service personnel stationed abroad. It will make them more aware of the fact that there are many men and women over there putting their lives on the line to try and make Afghanistan a safer place. All of them are making a huge sacrifice by being away from their loved ones and from the comforts of home. They have left behind the things we all treasure, and so it is hoped our students will learn from the experience of writing to them.”
For more information on the Postcard Campaign For Troops In Afghanistan, or to request your Free Postcards, please contact: Legion Magazine 1-613-591-0116 or by e-mail: magazine@legion.ca
Postcards To The Troops Illustrations by: John Fraser
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