{"id":1432,"date":"2015-11-15T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathroycaradoclions.ca\/?page_id=1432"},"modified":"2022-05-03T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:59:28","slug":"vets-with-local-links-and-wartime-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/strathroy-cemeteries\/vets-with-local-links-and-wartime-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Vets With Local Links and Wartime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This page is a work in progress. \u00a0This is where two types of stories will be assembled:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/1-veterans-with-local-links\/\">1 Veterans With Local Links<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These are the stories about veterans of the two world wars, but whose names are <strong>not<\/strong> on our cenotaph. \u00a0However, these veterans now have descendants who live in the Strathroy &#8211; Caradoc community.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These are the stories told by people who are \u201clocals\u201d but whose predecessors are NOT on our cenotaph. They may have family connections whose predecessors are veterans who are most probably now dead, and who served during WWI or WWII, and maybe not even in a Canadian regiment. These may be veterans who served in the name of a different country: Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria &#8211; Hungary, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, an African country, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, etc. We want to remember them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many families have photographs, letters, memorabilia, and of course memorable stories that make history real to us. \u00a0We would like to gather together here electronic images of those items so that they can be shared and not lost.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/2-stories-of-life-during-the-world-wars\/\">2 Stories of Life During the World Wars<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There may also be stories passed down of \u201cLife During the Wars in Europe\u201d. \u00a0They may not be about anyone who served but are about events of life during those times. The setting could have been anywhere in the world &#8211; at &#8220;home&#8221; &#8211; wherever that was at that time. What was life like in that place, at that time?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These recollections are all an extended part of our local history, our local sense of community and if we can gather them, and share them, it can only bring us closer together as a community of citizens who care about each others\u2019 past, present and future.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Please email me with your contacts so I can gather your stories.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"mailto:royboysask63@gmail.com\">royboysask63@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/3-poetry-art-world-wars\/\">3 Poetry and Art About the World Wars<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a work in progress. \u00a0This is where two types of stories will be assembled: 1 Veterans With Local Links These are the stories about veterans of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3034,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-noright.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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