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[Chris Bowden @ItsChrisBowden]

Good of them.

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@nathan_P44 Hilarious 😭

[John Thomson @JohnThomsonSK]

When we are old men and women, like our WW2 or Korean vets are now, there will be no battlefield tours of the places we fought in Afghanistan.

There will be no Juno Beach Centre equivalent in Kandahar, Panjwai, or Zhari, for Canadians to visit.

There will be no marble monument where the White School stood to hold a poignant memorial ceremony.

Without that physical link, our war will be harder for future Canadians to relate too, and remember.

That’s why it’s so vital that the stories of our time in Afghanistan are shared and preserved now.

If you served in Afghanistan, your contribution was important and unique. Write it down, blog it, do what you can to share your experiences if you’re capable and comfortable doing so. The more we do now the better.

A great way to do this is to support @TFProjectAthena.

Send them your pictures and the stories that go along with them and help keep our history alive and in the memory of Canadians, now and in the future.

Lest we forget.

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

Tom Holland calls for a national celebration to mark England’s 1,100th birthday next year.

King Athelstan was declared the first ‘King of the English’ on July 12, 927.

Let’s get this campaign going!

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@JessieTweeting @NoahGairn The simulators are static? Or is everyone discussing something else.

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@JessieTweeting @NoahGairn They're fun, to a point.

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@EFCJakeWY @lazyass_tec @st_noah_of_arc @Aquinaspolitics it's always Strom...

[Slightly out of focus @Normandy661944]

Armistice Day, 11 November 1940. Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir John Dill lays a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. A low key event - a few pressmen attend, and a poppy collector and a few passers by watch. Traffic is held up temporarily.

The cameraman would later be killed at Salerno in 1943

IWM (AYY 54), Harry Rignold, War Office Film Unit

[Canada The Unknown Country @Canada_Unknown]

“Canada's Answer” by British artist Norman Wilkinson. Shown is HMS Princess Royal. The story goes that for a morale boost during the rough crossing, Captain Cowan hoisted the Canadian Ensign & had the band play “O Canada” & “The Maple Leaf Forever” while patrolling the perimetre.

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@HiddenHistoryYT AI slop

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@Byron_McFadden @commontruth_ Almost. A significant number are missing.

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@JJ_McCullough Nothing wrong with wearing a Regimental or brand specific poppy.

I do find the ones with flags, political additions, and the like rather bizarre; but hey, people will be people.

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@bdmolnar Hilarious someone made an issue about this. I've a few regimental specific metal poppies as a homage to my ancestors. And like you, I drop a few £/$ to support the campaign.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

On this important day, can we all take a moment to remember the serviceman with arguably the finest Wikipedia entry of all time?

[Bear @BearJFK]

@PaulEmbery There were so many. And so many were absurdly competent, contrary to popular history.

After everything, a simple hobby as fishing rounds off a life’s work.

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@Jimmyocx3 @thinkdefence @MilitaryBanter

[Jimmy UK Veteran ⬅️🟩🇬🇧 @Jimmyocx3]

Hi all, I am trying to locate Royal Navy CPO Med Tech (Medical Technician) (Lab) Stuart McKinley or McKinlay. He served during the Falklands War and was based at the Field Hospital at Ajax Bay. If anyone has contact with him, I'd really appreciate being put in touch. It’s just a chat about his time at Ajax Bay. I know it’s a long shot, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
#Falklands @RoyalNavy

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@TomEDewey1948 @Adam171020 Hardly their sell by date. More casualties of something beyond their control.

[Based Tom 🇺🇸🇻🇦✝️☦️ @TomEDewey1948]

How Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith did in her fifth bid for the United States Senate in 1972 vs how Susan Collins did in her sixth bid for the US Senate in 2026.

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@zzbrownie11 @Lost_Loyalist Are you a Maine resident?