Editorial Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/our-veterans/editorial/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:47:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Editorial Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/our-veterans/editorial/ 32 32 The B’ys back https://legionmagazine.com/the-bys-back/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-bys-back/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:47:44 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=93153 Newfoundland repatriates an unknown First World War soldier

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-bys-back/feed/ 0 Dog fight https://legionmagazine.com/dog-fight/ https://legionmagazine.com/dog-fight/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 15:03:21 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=91017 We’re not asking the question anymore if the dogs work—at least my team isn’t—because we already have very strong evidence.” So said Linzi Williamson in November 2023, as quoted in this issue’s feature story on veterans using mental health service dogs (see “The dogs of postwar,” page 32), an assistant professor in the department of psychology …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/dog-fight/feed/ 0 The dogs of postwar https://legionmagazine.com/the-dogs-of-postwar/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-dogs-of-postwar/#respond Mon, 06 May 2024 14:36:41 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=90933 How mental health service animals help veterans. And a look at the decade-long struggle to have Veterans Affairs Canada fund them.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-dogs-of-postwar/feed/ 0 Promises, Promises https://legionmagazine.com/promises-promises/ https://legionmagazine.com/promises-promises/#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:39 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=83845 We’re here to defend our way of life, now and into the future,” said the chief of the defence staff, General Wayne Eyre in mid-October 2022. “So we need a whole-of-society effort to help us bring the Armed Forces back to where it needs to be for the dangerous world ahead.” No argument with that …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/promises-promises/feed/ 0 Life of Service https://legionmagazine.com/life-of-service/ https://legionmagazine.com/life-of-service/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:10:04 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=83880 While the number of veterans it serves declines, the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League continues to provide critical support For more than 30 years, Earl Francis has regularly navigated the backroads of Saint Lucia, delivering food, care packages and financial support to aged veterans and widows scattered around the ruggedly beautiful eastern Caribbean island. A retired …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/life-of-service/feed/ 0 Raid reviews https://legionmagazine.com/raid-reviews/ https://legionmagazine.com/raid-reviews/#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:42:46 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=82494 Having spent some time in Dieppe in 2018 as part of a Second World War self-guided tour, I found Legion Magazine’s coverage (“To the men of Dieppe,” July/August) of this ill-conceived raid to be very informative. I stopped at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery coming into town, but failed to notice that the headstones …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/raid-reviews/feed/ 0 Exclusive excerpt: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers https://legionmagazine.com/exclusive-excerpt-lifesavers-and-body-snatchers-byline-tim-cook/ https://legionmagazine.com/exclusive-excerpt-lifesavers-and-body-snatchers-byline-tim-cook/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:26:49 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=81069 More than 20,000 doctors and nurses served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Great War. With Canadian soldiers struggling in the trenches of the Western Front, facing dirt and deprivation, along with shells, bullets and chemical agents, it was essential to have supporting medical formations. “On the one hand it is science straining …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/exclusive-excerpt-lifesavers-and-body-snatchers-byline-tim-cook/feed/ 0 Preserving pensions https://legionmagazine.com/preserving-pensions/ https://legionmagazine.com/preserving-pensions/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:39:04 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=81087 It all came as a shock to Ardith Bennett, who gave up her own health plan and opted for her husband’s after they married. Dan, a veteran, was over 60, and when he died 15 years later, she discovered she no longer had health benefits. “I had no idea his coverage ended,” she told the …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/preserving-pensions/feed/ 0 Eternal poppy https://legionmagazine.com/eternal-poppy/ https://legionmagazine.com/eternal-poppy/#respond Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:53:37 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=72922 The bleak, muddy terrain of Western Europe during the First World War was trenched, scarred, bombed and cratered into oblivion. Tides of battle flowed back and forth across the front, and the ground and greenery were scorched by shellfire and poisoned by gas. Soldiers and horses, irretrievable, decomposed in the muck. It seemed nothing could exist …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/eternal-poppy/feed/ 0 Pick up the pace https://legionmagazine.com/pick-up-the-pace/ https://legionmagazine.com/pick-up-the-pace/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:38:42 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=72355 The backlog of benefit applications at Veterans Affairs Canada is beyond exasperating. Despite good intentions, despite throwing more money and additional people at the problem, the backlog persists, and is even poised to grow as the pandemic winds down, if predictions of veterans’ advocates prove correct.   Veterans Affairs Canada set its service standard at providing decisions …

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