At 11:00 A.M. (Paris time) on the 11th of November, 1918, “The Great War”, “The War To End All Wars” a.k.a. World War I, came to an end. The face of Europe was forever changed. However, in this war’s wake, it fostered yet another global conflict, as less than 21 years later the “dogs of war” were let loose once again.
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Peter, The Great War, and Pop Goes to Camp
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags "miracle of Dunkirk", Allies, Barrie, Bob Hope, Camp Borden, Canada At War, Canadian Army, Dieppe, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Essex County, Essex Scottish regiment, Europe, Fern Resort, Nazis, NFB, Officer's Mess, Operation Olympic, Orillia, P.I.A.T. gun, Peter Montreuil, Remembrance Day, Robert Segarini, The Atherley Arms, The First, The Great War, Tim Hortons, Union Station, Windsor, World War 1 on November 8, 2018 by segariniPeter – My Dad Was Quite the Lad
Posted in Opinion with tags "Charlie Deserves it", "Fiddler On The Roof", Assumption College, Bancroft, Barrie, Camp Borden, Canadian Army, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Expo 67, HSL-41, Kiwanis Festival, Louise Montreuil, Marie Renaud, Montreal, Ontario College of Education, Orillia, Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute, Park Street Collegiate Institute, Peter Montreuil, Robert Segarini, St Bernard's, University of Windsor, Windsor on April 5, 2018 by segariniI can’t believe that it’s been 30 years since my Dad passed. Let me share some of my personal randomly shuffled memories, as well as a few anecdotes that I learned second hand, at a temporal distance from when they occurred. I now bitterly regret not asking him more questions, not finding out more about the man who was my father, so the following is, in some cases, ” as far as I know.”.