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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah, I'm the same way, a large percentage of the bin does go to the veterans food bank and other veteran programs.
Even as a old infantry man, I actually really like what they did with the naval section of the museum with the fully assembled Banshee fighter jet, and the full sized naval guns. They also have one of the few surviving enigma devices in there. The airforce section is lacking a bit, but there are some amazing photo's and exhibitions there as well.
But the best part are the various Calgary unit sections and some of the scale mockups.
you can literally spend a day in there going through everything and still not hit it all.
From my understanding though the CF-5 that's mounted outfront is going to be replaced with a CF-18, they also tried to get one of the surviving Mosquito light bombers.
To me its just a very cool place and what adds to it is talking to some of the vets that work there.
I was talking to one old timer who went over to Korea as a tank gunner. He stated that he was scared a few times but he never got angry at the North Koreans until he got caught in a artillary barrage and his comic got shredded. "A nickle was a lot of money back them" he grumbled at my nephew.
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My kids where excited when they say my name up on the walls.