"Corrina In The News"
Hello Everyone! Just a quick note to pass on a warm fuzzy that has been imparted on to me. The following is a link to an article that ran in the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia that used a picture of me. http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/545100.html I was also told by the Public Affairs Officer onboard that my Remembrance Day message was played on A Channel in Victoria. The icing on the media cake is that my name is flying all over Ottawa (the "DND Headquarters") for a reply I wrote to a young girl in London, Ontario who sent her questions and well wishes to deployed soldiers and sailors. The message appears on a Canadian Military Message To The Troops website. I hope to write soon - things have just been rather hectic here lately... as soon as the calm arrives after this storm of activity I will tell you all about it.
posted by Corrina at 10:11 p.m.
10 Comments:
Hi Kid.... I have sent this link to everyone in my address book! Many wonderful replies already. My "Corrina Wall" at work is taking over my office. May have to ask for a bigger office!
Right now I am looking for the message you wrote to the London girl. Can you give us an idea of the date - so far I have scrolled through 24 of 1650 pages! As Sharon, Lois & Bram said ..."I am slowly going crazy..1,2,3,4".
Sending a personal mail as well ...
Love you kid... miss you much. How much? "Hoe hoe bunches"
Wed Dec 06, 12:14:00 a.m. PST
Found it!
At the moment it's on page 77 and the original message was sent on November 17th.
The site is "www.forces.gc.ca" then go to "Writing the Troops".
The site is a wonderful place to visit and read the messages, but bring a hankie!
Wed Dec 06, 12:57:00 a.m. PST
The letter and your reply will also appear in the Navy pages of the Maple Leaf on December 13, which is also available online via the National Defence website mainpage.
Sincerely, Navy Pages editor
Wed Dec 06, 07:52:00 a.m. PST
Hi Corrina...I was one of the many people your mom contacted and I'm so glad I finally sat down and read all your wonderful stories. As many have said before - you have a knack for writing - I too have laughed and cried and felt great pride thru your words. You have brought the other side of the world into my day. I also went to the phone number Netty gave me and I too had a cry after your message to her and Kees.
Stay safe, keep writing and thank you.
Normajean (from Edmonton)
Thu Dec 07, 01:54:00 p.m. PST
Compliments from a mail sent by Normajean:
Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
You rock Kid!
Fri Dec 08, 12:30:00 a.m. PST
Way to go, Corrina. Keep it up. Good to see you smile.
Sun Dec 10, 11:39:00 a.m. PST
Hello Corrina sorry it took so long to send this message i just love your blog.this is something i was emailed and thought you might share it with your fine shipmates.....iwas hoping to send it on nov.11 put failed thanks to maryanne she showed me how ..so keep the great work and we all love you very much
This is a good read - funny how it took someone in England to put it into words...
Sunday Telegraph Article
From today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation
Kevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph
LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.
It seems that Canada 's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States , and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth-largest air force in the world.
The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of ourse, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular on-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia , in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan ? Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac , Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun.
It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This week, four more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
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Please pass the on or print it and give it to any of your friends or relatives who served in the Canadian Forces, it is a wonderful tribute to those who choose to serve their country and the world in our quiet Canadian way.
Mon Dec 11, 07:44:00 a.m. PST
Hello ... is anyone out there?
No pressure kid, but I need my Corrina fix!!
Love ya, miss ya....
Mom
Wed Dec 13, 06:07:00 a.m. PST
i crina i don't know how to use this hing but i miss u and hope ur not getting creeped on too badd
love mike
Thu Dec 14, 04:21:00 p.m. PST
Hi corrina, just a short message great seeing you at the party hugs and kisses and have a merry christmas Jeff B
Wed Dec 20, 07:14:00 p.m. PST
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