fraserdw said:
Got it before me! Keep up the pictures, I find it interesting the RCL's upper elite cannot muster up even a single CD!
I remember in the early eighties when the RCL called us "CF retirees" as if we were some lower form of military life.
Funny how there's a whole slew of members on here who are convinced they are much better soldiers than any member of the Legion.
Please, tell me what her story is as you seem to be intimately familiar of it and worthy of judging her. Was she one of those WRENs who was injured and unceremoniously booted out of the CF prior to her 12 years of service --- one of those ones who then fought for us so that the same damn thing didn't continue to happen? Was she someone who inhereted over 10K and thus was unceremoniously booted out of the CF as used to be the common practise who has since fought to have such archaic rules corrected? Or one who was unceremoniously booted out after having a child - also an archaic rule of yesteryear that pers have fought to change for us?
Please advise as to why, all of a sudden, today's soldier suddenly believes that "number of years of service" means anything? No Pte's killed in WW2 are worthless because they served only a year before falling. Nor are those from Afghanistan. But, suddenly, apparently one is not a 'real' member of the CF unless they have a CD?
I've recently learned a new saying, "Hoop your forehead". Have no idea what it means, but here's to you.
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3 Federal parties came to an agreement on the NVA. All 3!! Unanimous consent. Two parties were snowballed (The NDP and the Cons) into believing that NVA would be BETTER for today's Vets and signed off on this non-partisan Act at the behest of the Liebrals.
ONE of those parties -supposedly the only party that cares about Vets- is now in power and certainly should not be ignorant to the error of their previous ways. We've all, including the RCL (who was also led astray), let them know that they were led astray by the big red machine.
Best part of all is that the current "only friends of Vets" party is also in power as a majority government. And yet, they've still done SFA to sort out either VAC or the NVA. The RCL executive is voted in by it's membership and I'm guessing you ain't one. That means you shouldn't be bitching about who they elect. Especially since the REAL elected officials who can change, won't change and who helped put in place the NVA currently ALL sit in Ottawa wearing, I'm only guessing, an even smaller per capita number of CDs than RCL members. But, be sure to hell they've all got their own QDJM and 50 more each to 'present' to their friends.
If you're blaming the Legion for the NVA, you're angst is sorely misplaced. You should be bitching about that party that can and does have the power to sort it out, yet
chooses not to.