What is the criteria for the Silver Cross Mother for Remembrance Day chosen by the Canadian Legion.?
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The National Silver Cross Mother is chosen annually by The Royal Canadian Legion to represent the mothers of Canada at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa on 11 November. As the Silver Cross Mother, she will lay a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who lost children in the military service of their nation.\n\nThe Memorial Cross, the gift of Canada, was issued as a memento of personal loss and sacrifice on the part of widows and mothers of Canadian sailors and soldiers who died for their country during war.
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I will be one of the guards at the Cenotaph, standing at the Rest on Arms Reversed for the duration of the parade, service and laying of the wreaths.\n\nFollowing that, I will go to the Legion and spend time with the vets, talk to them, learm what I can from them.\n\nAnd following that, I am going out on the town with some other guys from my unit and I am going to have a damned fine time and raise glasses in the names of my friends and fellow soldiers who are currently serving overseas.
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Shortly after its creation in 1941, Canadian Women’s Army Corps selected “Athene” as its symbol (at top of article) and with it, the motto, “Dulcit Amor Patrice” (In Love of Country, We Serve). In “Homer”, Athene is the Goddess of Wisdom. In the Iliad, Athene appears as the goddess of Counsel, a true friend of bold warriors.\n\n1941: After two years of what was proving to be a devastating war, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked the Canadian government for more men to go into active duty. When he was informed that there weren’t sufficient numbers available, his response, “What about your women – why are they not replacing men as cooks, waitresses, stenos, telephone operators and so on…?” was to change the course of history for the women of Canada. \n\nThe Canadian government had already been experiencing incessant pressure from women’s volunteer corps who wished to serve their country. With Churchill’s request and the reality of dwindling “manpower” making it impossible to send over enough men, a reluctant Army allowed women to serve in supportive roles. For the first time in the nation’s history, women were invited to enlist in the rank and file of the Canadian Army. \n\nThe Canadian Women’s Army Corps was part of the Canadian Army‘s support system – working at home, and short distances behind the front-lines as need arose – which freed fighting men for action overseas and in battle. The 21,624 C.W.A.C.s who served for their country from 1941-1945 facilitated the release of more than a full division of male troops for combat service. \n\nTheirs was an unsung role, created to get a job done – despite opposition to women in the military from both within the Canadian Army and from the Canadian public, including their own families. \n\n“We were the first liberated women,” declares Margaret Jobin, current president of C.W.A.C. Windsor Association which formed in 1947. “Many women in Windsor were already working in the war plants before they joined. Our jobs had already changed from traditional ‘women’s work’.”
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I did some searching and found some sites that might be useful to you. \n\nhttp://www.nato.int/ims/2001/win/canada.htm\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/3321/win10c.htm\nhttp://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com\n(On the third one, put in "Women in the military" in the search bar and a whole list will pop up). \nHope these help.
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www.anysoldier.com    You can send packages or letters. You can pick a female or male soldier. There are plenty of them on this website.\n\nThank you for supporting the troops!
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Mother's Day in the UK is Mothering Sunday ... a Sunday about half-way through Lent.  It was traditionally the day when girls in service would be allowed home to see their mothers (they often worked some miles away and 'lived-in'). \n\nOf course mothers should be appreciated all year round but it's a very good idea to have one day in the year when you remember them specially!  If it's a special day with happy memories, then one thinks back to it over the ensuing year and it reminds one from time to time how special one's mother is.
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Boxing Day.  \n\nAccording to a good Canadian site: \n\nThe day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. \n\nNowadays, we often see, in certain families, gifts (boxes) given to those who provide services throughout the year.
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Mother ---------- ---------------------            Passed on.\nFather.--------------------------------              Passed on.      \nBrother -  Still Alive.                                          ~   Because they all\nGrandmother-------------------------   Passed on.      have loved and \nGrandfather---------------------------   Passed on.      protected me \nFriends  -  Still Alive.                                              from one time or\n                                                                                       another. ~
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Mother's Day History\nContrary to popular belief, Mother's Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday. \n\nIn the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day." \n\nFifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else. \n\nIn 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers." \n\nAnna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna's mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday. \n\nAt first, people observed Mother's Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother's day tradition. \n\nDespite Jarvis's misgivings, Mother's Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers
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If you served with the armed forces, then you have the right to be buried in uniform, apart from your medals, which will be presented to your family.\n\nThis right is a funeral with full military honours and will also include the establishment flags and ensign to be flown at half mast, your coffin to be flag drapped and a 3 volley salute fired by an armed guard.  \n\nYou also have the last post played as a mark of respect to all fallen comardes.
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I placed an item in friend and fellow Soldier's casket. It was a small medallion of St. Christopher 'traveler's saint'. \n\nTraditionally there is nothing against it - just ask the familiy first. \n\nI am sorry for your loss. To the Soldier - thank you for your service.\n\n 'Gratias Ago Tibi'
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The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army of the United States after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy; or while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.\n\nAwards may be made for acts of heroism, performed under circumstances described above, which are of lesser degree than required for the award of the Silver Star.\n\nThe Bronze Star Medal may be awarded for meritorious achievement or meritorious service according to the following:\n\nAwards may be made to recognize single acts of merit or meritorious service. The lesser degree than that required for the award of the Legion of Merit must nevertheless have been meritorious and accomplished with distinction.
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I assume you've asked your parents and any surving friends or siblings of your grandfather? If you can find out the name of his division, then you might be able to google for an organization of veterans of that division. They might have pictures.
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I would contact the VFW in your area Veterans of Foreign Wars, or The American Legion, or your nearest veterans center.........good luck
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well,in Canada we have queen Elizabeth II on one side and traditionally a big old elk on the flip side. Now,however we have different causes represented and have had remembrance day,breast cancer,each province, native art and some others on the other side. The queen is always there though.
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Hi, I am 63 and a spiritualist and I have been wearing my crucifix as a statement of my faith, my belief in God, the Divine Spirit and Christ for many years now.  My crucifix is  made of mother of pearl and, I believe, is french.  It is very precious to me, not only because of my beliefs, but because my dear Mum bought it for me.  She passed to spirit 3 years ago.  She made such an effort to buy it for me.  My sister pushed her in her wheelchair to the local antique shop where she bought it for a Christmas present.  I only take it off when I shower as I am frightened of damaging it. Otherwise it never leaves my neck and if it slips behind my clothing I put it on show again.  I would NEVER take it off for anyone.  BA have no right to ban crucifixes.  If they do that then those who follow other religious denominations must also adhere to the rules.  This could really get out of hand - what next?  We all have a right to which faith we follow, and as such should be allowed to wear a symbol of that faith.  It is now getting ridiculous - not allowed to say certain words in case they offend, can't wear what we want.  The whole world is going mad and I am sure God did not want this divide.
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Don't know, the one in Australia looks nice...\n\nhttp://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/20776.htm