| Hi Nick,
What a treat to hear Answering the Call each weekday, instead of the American stuff. Thank you for doing it! | | Ann Brady |
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| Submitted StoriesBelow is a list of submitted stories.Submitted By: ROGER CAMM
December 19th 2011 | | http://74.220.207.165/~thelandc/Family/Roger/camms/fredcamm.html
this is my Grandad's story, early member of the RCMP, enlisted in Canadian Armed Forces WWI, was wounded,twice, and returned to the RCMP, where he eventually ended up... |
Submitted By: Brent Rubeli
September 26th 2011 |  | From the Telegraph (UK): Captain James Edward Futcher, who was a senior captain with British Airways was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal in recognition of his calm and courageous conduct after Palestinian terrorists hijacked his VC-10... |
Submitted By: Mike Donoghue
April 3rd 2011 |  | John Gregg Shaw was born in Ballymena, Ireland on the 16th of June 1892. Having died as a result of his birth, his father blamed him for his mother’s unfortunate and untimely death. This lack of forgiveness being a growing cloud under which John... |
Submitted By: Anonymous
June 1st 2010 | | In 1944, Canadian troops raced inland from Juno Beach, moving into the south of Holland. Army Command was appaulled at what it found. |
Submitted By: Anonymous
March 26th 2010 | | The part of the ships company who work in the main machinery spaces have been called "stokers" since the first lump of coal was loaded on board the first steam driven ship.The term comes from the old days when boilers would be "stoked up". The modern version of this job is called the marine engineer, but the old name still sticks and once you become a stoker, you are one for life. It is the most misunderstood but vital job on board any seagoing vessel and this poem get as close as I've seen to telling it like it was.
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Submitted By: Jean Marshall
November 25th 2009 | | This story was sent to me by regular post, and while I typed it in, the words are exactly as the authour wrote them. No editing of any kind was done. Any spelling mistakes, are mine.
Nick.
When the second world war began in... |
Submitted By: Guy Paquette
November 5th 2009 |  | It is 1930 and the French have ruled Vietnam as a colony for nearly 50 years. Vietnam’s last emperor, Bao Dai, remains but wields no power and certainly has no loyalty to the French. The Vietnamese people are proud and never fully accept... |
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