From: amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca   
      
   "Dennis Lloyd" > wrote in message   
   > "Toni" (amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca) writes:   
   >> complain now can he?  [[I can't cl  ...   ¿? .. have thought twice about   
   >> what I was about to put here ... I'd best not .. he'd kill me for saying   
   >> that on the internet]]   You'll just have let your mind run ... rampant!   
   >> lol...lol...lol...  oh I'm awful ...   
   >   
   > Toni, yer a doll.   
      
   Oh Dennis, you are sooooo nice.  What a boost to my ego this night.  Have   
   been sick all week, so it's a good thing you no one can see me.   
      
   > I will be heading off to the Cenotaph next week - have the week off - and   
   > will say hi for/to your loved ones - have a 2001 Veterans' quarter and a   
   > 2005 "V for Victory" nickel that I want to show and leave with them.   
      
   That's wonderful Dennis.  Thank you.  They will like that.  The husband of   
   one of my workmates gave me a Year of the Veteran pin.  Another very long   
   time friend, a fellow Canadian Army Brat, who has lived in England since   
   1964, arrived back in Canada (2 wk visit) in Sept, for the first time since   
   leaving.  Her parents went to England to live when he retired from the Army   
   c1966.  The Kipper & I use to visit them when we lived in Devonport.  In   
   chatting with Claire, it came up that it was the Year of the Verteran.  She   
   said her Dad had never mentioned it and she herself didn't know.  So I gave   
   her my pin, to give to her Dad.  Recently I found 2 Veteran quarters and a   
   'V' nickel in my change, nice and shiney.  So when I sent my usual Christmas   
   card to him this year, I taped one of those quarters & the nickel, plus a   
   quarter with the poppy to the inside of the card.  Had an e-mail from Claire   
   yesterday to say her Dad was thrilled to bits and sends his thanks.  Made me   
   feel really good that he was so pleased to have them.  A small thing for me   
   to do, but meant alot to Mr. V.  (Mr V use to make, from absolute scratch,   
   the most beautiful violins ... as well as other fabulous things like rocking   
   horses, trains and such.)   
      
   Say hello to my Dad .. he's probably hanging about with my 2 uncles (no   
   doubt Dad will be back in his bells!), one of whom went down with the   
   Ottawa.  Bill, Gord and Bobby (HMCS Ottawa) are their names.  Have just   
   learned more about another uncle .. well a grand-uncle by marriage.  He was   
   in a Scottish Reg't (UK), killed at Arras France in 1916.  Actually died at   
   a Canadian Field Hospital.  Left a wife and 4 young children, one of whom he   
   never saw.  She's now 91+ (Glasgow Scotland).   
      
   Cheers Dennis ... Merry Christmas to you and your's,   
   Toni ~ Kingston.   
      
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