by matt.symes | Feb 27, 2012 | Guest Blogs |
Stop that tank! With the imposing title and the baritone voice instructing the viewer, technology, grit, and the well placed shot from a Boys Mk. I anti-tank rifle would stop the German armoured onslaught. The film of the Boys was indicative of North American...
by matt.symes | Feb 20, 2012 | Guest Blogs |
If You’re Reading This – Last Letters from the Front Line is a book that had its origins in a BBC radio documentary I produced more than three years ago. Working with a colleague called Siobhan McClelland, whose uncle had penned a farewell letter, it became a topic...
by matt.symes | Jan 27, 2012 | Guest Blogs |
Internet auction sites. We all know them and many of us either love or despise their existence. Yet whatever one’s personal feelings towards the sale of personal artifacts on the internet, there is no denying the fact that these larger than life electronic garage...
by msymes | Nov 17, 2011 | Guest Blogs |
Vincent T (Picton, Ontario) Juno Beach Centre Guide fall 2011 Today, many Canadians flock to the centre to pay their respects, to show their love, and to remember the ultimate sacrifice made by so many in order to guarantee that today, we could be free and enjoy a...
by CMHAdmin | Nov 10, 2011 | Guest Blogs |
By 1960, the Korean War was only seven years in the past. It was closer to us then, than our arrival in Afghanistan is to us now. Yet to me, at 18 in 1960, those seven years might as well have been seven light years. In 1960, Korea was already on the misty fringes of ...
by CMHAdmin | Nov 8, 2011 | Guest Blogs |
On 16 March, 2011 Vancouver Canucks face-off specialist Manny Malhotra was hit in the left eye by a puck during a game against the Colorado Avalanche. The resulting injury was considered very serious by many observers, with some believing it to be career ending. As...