Canadian Heroes

Today at the retreat we experienced an amazing thing I pulled into CH HQ waiting for our special guests to arrive for our first group peer support session for Op Medusa Friendly Fire we had the family of Cpl Mark Mclaren MMV wounded in this incident and Pte Mark Anthony Graham whom we lost that morning and three soldiers reaching out whose demons are still affecting them today. Unknown to me they arrived a few min after myself with a monument that was made for the badger Recovery vehicle that was struck by an IED and covered with the poppies from the Afghanistan memorial which were bronzed, This took my breath away as I’ve never seen the memorial nor the book of remembrance that these three soldiers have entrusted to them, the care and attention to detail as they assembled it out front waiting for the families to arrive. Never leaving it unattended out of respect for which it stands, we chatted and everyone just talked about what ever they could it was Peer support at its best just being able to sit there and just listen and chat, laugh and cry as they met the two silver cross families for the first time, listening to the stories for the first time as we shared what happened on that early morning in Sept listening as one soldier told Marks Grahams mom he did not die alone he had friends with him took everything I had to not loose control. As a medic I have always put others before self and still do I feel I have to stay strong for those whom I serve, I have never talked about what we did that morning the way I did today with a …read more

A lot of us had relatives that served in the war, fought for our freedoms and made the ultimate sacrifice for our Country, do you know anything about them??? One incredible organization and website can give you a lot of information about them the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, take a look and start doing some research, I personally found were my grandfather and several others are buried through them.
CWGC – Homepage
www.cwgc.org
Welcome to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.We commemorate the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars.Our cemeteries, burial plots and memorials are a lasting tribute to those who died in some 153 countries across the world.Our Register record… …read more

As we start to list the countries in Europe were most of our fallen were buried, it will get very big fast, so those that are interested in taking on a cemetery as a lead, please send us an email through our website, in the subject line simply put the Country that you are interested in, so like France, Greece, Japan, etc… this way we can make up file folders to track everything etc…. …read more

For those that cant travel but want to be part of our Remembrance Day Project, simply find your local cemetery and go see how many vets are buried there, if you can be the lead for 1 cemetery at least then we can get a lot of our vets buried on our soil honoured and remembered as well. …read more

Thank you to those searching around the globe to identify Canadians and others to help with “Op Canadian Heroes”, we just had someone in San Fran volunteer without even being asked, and yes we have 5 cemeteries in the Golden Gate area that we have Canadians buried. Keep spreading the word to your contacts globally Canada! …read more