06-06-2014, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Jim "Pee Wee" Martin
We should bow down.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/...r-jumps-again/
He has a part time job eating metal and ####ting out nails.
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06-06-2014, 10:02 AM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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"You don't have to sit and die because you get old." Damn right.
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06-06-2014, 10:11 AM
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#3
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First Line Centre
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I will never even be half the man that guy is.
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06-06-2014, 10:48 AM
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#4
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Franchise Player
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wow......
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06-06-2014, 11:17 AM
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#5
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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It's ironic, in a sense, because Martin was among the oldest of his bunch in June 1944 -- at 23 years old -- surrounded by others who were mere teenagers.
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Wow. I didn't realize the majority of the people in that invasion were so young.
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06-06-2014, 12:51 PM
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#6
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Wow. I didn't realize the majority of the people in that invasion were so young.
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My grandfather lied about his age at 16 and enlisted in the Canadian army in 1939. Most of his friends did the same
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06-06-2014, 01:17 PM
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#7
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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I didn't know this was happening, or I may have driven out
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/soldier...-day-1.1854308
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A group of soldiers are to parachute out of a Second World War-era plane over Alberta on Thursday to commemorate the exploits of Canadian airborne troops on D-Day.
On June 6, 1944, the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was part of a division that dropped behind German lines to support the landings of Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy, France.
To mark their service, 16 soldiers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry plan to make a low-altitude jump from an old DC-3 transport plane into the freezing waters of Abraham Lake, near Banff National Park.
Capt. Christine Salt said with mountains nearby, the lake is the safest drop zone for the troops, who will be wearing wetsuits.
A group of veterans, including some former paratroopers, are to watch the drop from near a mountain named in honour of the battalion. The mountain is called Ex Coelis, which is Latin for "Out of the Clouds."
"This jump is in a remote area but it will still give people a chance to kind of connect to something that happened far away and a long time ago," Salt said. "It gives them something visible, something they can hear."
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06-06-2014, 02:02 PM
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#8
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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http://www.businessinsider.com/briti...ng-home-2014-6
haha love it
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An 89-year-old Second World War veteran told he could not attend today’s D-Day events in France went AWOL from his care home and was found 12 hours later in Normandy with comrades police have confirmed.
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06-07-2014, 05:19 PM
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#9
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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he received a hero's welcome we he came back. Nice.
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06-07-2014, 05:53 PM
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#10
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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“They are worried about me getting hurt. I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. If I get hurt or I get killed, what is the difference? I’ve lived 93 years. I’ve had a good life."
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