Thursday, November 11, 2021
Lest We Forget
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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As a kid, my bedroom on the second story fronted Queen Street, one of the main streets in the town I grew up in. I distinctly remember watching a veritable parade of WWI vets marching up Queen St. in the direction of my house.
ReplyDelete(And maybe 1 or 2 years later after that, I distinctly remember a Sherman's treadmarks being impressed/ground into the asphalt when rounding the corner from the top of Park Street making a right onto Queen St. Funny; only saw that occur once.)
When I was young Mum would take us to the Cenetaph in St Lambert to pay our respects and see dad marching with the legion. He was only 40 at the time....
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