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Roxanne Tellier – Remembrance Day

Posted in Opinion with tags Agent Orange, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Big Sugar, Bob Segarini, Bruce Cassidy, Canada, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, Cuban Missile Crisis, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downton Abbey, Eric Bogle, Gordie Johnson, Harry Leslie Smith, Helen Dreyer, ISIS, Isla St. Clair, James Sloan, Kieron Donovan, Korea, National War Memorial, No Glory In War, November 11, Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Remembrance Day, Roxanne Tellier, Royal 22nd Regiment, Ryan Kelly, The Trews, Tom Waits, Tomb of the Unknown Solider, Van Doos, Vietnam War on November 9, 2014 by segarini

My dad was a Korean vet. He met my mum through her brother, with whom he served in the famous Van Doos (the Royal 22^nd Regiment.) He was from Alberta, and she from Quebec. It’s unlikely they would have ever met if it hadn’t been for the war. They married a few weeks after attending my Uncle Leo’s wedding, and I was born nine months later.

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