General. The CVA has been very active in the aftermath of the 1st Canadian Veterans National Rendezvous and are currently engaged at several levels. During the past month we have dispatched representation to the CAVUNP Peacekeeping Day parade in Hamilton, travelled to Parkwood Veterans Hospital in London and to Hamilton to attend the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry’s Dieppe memorial service, a sombre event as so many members of the regiment were slaughtered on the bloody beachhead. We sat with veterans who were captured on that fateful day and heard amazing stories of survival in German POWs camps until the end of the war. This past Saturday, we united with The RCR Association of Niagara and Side by Side to provide a riding float for disabled or elderly veterans wishing to participate in the 90th Warriors day parade in Toronto. On a personal level, I was very pleased to see and speak with Lieutenant General Peter Devlin CMM, MCS, CD, Chief of Land Staff, who was the parade’s reviewing officer. We served together in 1 RCR Mortar Platoon during the early eighties and to our intense pleasure, he left the reviewing stand to offer a brief word of encouragement and shake hands. Pro Patria!
