On September 20, 2011, I interviewed a friend of mine called Sam at his home in Driftwood, Toronto. Sam has been to jail many times after he arrived in Canada. Sam was born on December 15, 1992 in a northern village called Bekwai in Ghana. This individual is a close friend of my family. He is the oldest of three children with Ghanaian background.
Even though he was caught cheating, he still got enlisted in the Mississauga Horse of Toronto, because World War I. When he had to get trained he got pneumonia and was hospitalized for about two months. Just after recovering from pneumonia, Bishop was assigned to the 14th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles. In 1916, when he yet did not join the Royal flying Corps, he was just a normal soldier. Bishop disliked the atmosphere of the ground war, because he found it hard to walk, and fight from the trenches, so Bishop decided to quit and join the Royal Flying Corps.
At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before allegedly firing more than 100 rounds in the soldier processing center. Thirteen people (eleven soldiers and two civilians) were killed, of whom, eleven died at the scene, two later in hospital. Thirty others were wounded before Hasan was shot at least four times by local police officers, including Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who was herself shot by Hasan. Munley, who was doing maintenance on her patrol car nearby, arrived on the scene within three minutes of receiving the report of an emergency at the center.
Since Trang Bang was being attacked by North Vietnamese forces, South Vietnamese’s air force dropped the napalm bomb to eliminate them. Although the bomb did eliminate the enemy forces, many villagers were either injured or killed. Villagers like Kim Phuc, who was the girl depicted running naked in the picture, suffered severe burns which led to literally skin being peeled right off her body. Kim lost two of her cousins in the bombing and two other villagers had died. In the main frame of the picture you see soldiers and children fleeing the fire inferno.
A group of rangers goes in to the town to take down two of the dictator’s right hand men. While going in for the mission two of the black hawks sent in get shot down and now the military has to go into the war zone and search for survivors. While all of the military sent in are vital to this mission, there are three men who stand out the most from this crowd. Sergeant Matt Eversman was informed he had to replace the man who commanded his unit before him, putting a whole new load of things on his
We loaded them into the Humvee which had quickly become crowded when the side of it was lit up by enemy fire from an adjacent building. The soldier on the .50 caliber lit up the side of the building with a few bursts from his gun turning the walls into nothing more than rubble. No one returned
Whilst out on a spelunking expedition a group of five spelunkers entered into a cavern and when inside, a landslide caused the only entrance known by the spelunkers to become impassable. A rescue mission was initiated soon after. On the twentieth day of the mission it was deciphered during first radio contact that by the time they were rescued they would probably all die of hunger unless the flesh of one of the group was consumed. After drawing lots Roger Whetmore was killed and eaten by the rest of the group. After being rescued the group were sentenced to hanging for murdering Roger pending appeal.
Canadian Photographer Yousuf Karsh 1908-2002 History 10 Oct 8,2012. Yousuf Karsh also known as Hovsep (Armenian given name), was born in Mardin a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (Turkey).he grew up during a time of famine, costing the life of his sister, and immediately after that the 1918 pandemic (Spanish flu) started. Including the harsh deportation on the Armenian minorities living in Turkey. They were driven from village to village, at the age of 14 he and his family fled to Syria to escape persecution. 2 years later his parents sent him to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada.
Cambodian Genocide It all started with a lie. One simple little killed almost two million people. Khmer Rouge soldiers told Cambodian citizens to evacuate their house at once and to flee to the countryside. The Khmer Rouge soldiers told the citizens that American B-52 fighter planes were coming to bomb them. The citizens of course listened and when some turned around to retrieve something they forgot or refused to go they were shot.
Jimenez darted through the brush and lead his platoon in the attack. Maneuvering in the sight of heavy automatic weapons fire and blasting grenades, he charged enemy contact and closed within 15 meters before killing his first enemy soldier with shots from his M-16. Disregarding his own life L.Cpl. Jimenez bolted through 20 meters of open area. With the anti-aircraft weapon, that had been assaulting his unit with intense fire in his vision.