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# Lest We Forget

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## [Lest we forget: Honouring our heroes and survivors on Remembrance Day](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/lest-we-forget-honouring-our-heroes-and-survivors-on-remembrance-day)

December 30, 2025

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/lest-we-forget-honouring-our-heroes-and-survivors-on-remembrance-day>

## [A life of service: Remembering Mary, the wartime nurse](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/a-life-of-service-remembering-mary-the-wartime-nurse)

September 30, 2024

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/a-life-of-service-remembering-mary-the-wartime-nurse>

## [A teenager’s fight for survival: How Aileen Frydrych endured the Holocaust](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/a-teenagers-fight-for-survival-how-aileen-frydrych-endured-the-holocaust)

September 27, 2024

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/a-teenagers-fight-for-survival-how-aileen-frydrych-endured-the-holocaust>

## [Paula Goldhar: How the youngest of 8 children survived the Holocaust](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/paula-goldhar-how-the-youngest-of-8-children-survived-the-holocaust)

September 26, 2024

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/paula-goldhar-how-the-youngest-of-8-children-survived-the-holocaust>

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## [A harrowing tale of survival](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/a-harrowing-tale-of-survival)

 Nov 10, 2022

"I can't believe that I could survive the horrors I went through.” This quote tragically sums up Rose Mandelbaum’s early life, before she came to Canada aged 21.

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/102-year-old-veteran-recalls-his-life>

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## [102-year-old veteran recalls his life](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/102-year-old-veteran-recalls-his-life)

 May 24, 2021

Lieutenant Colonel John Beswick celebrated his 102 birthday at Carolina Retirement Residence with family and special visits from the fire department and Towne Crier.

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/for-love-of-country-and-music>

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## [For love of country and music](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/for-love-of-country-and-music)

 Feb 03, 2020

A Master Warrant Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Eugene’s true passion is for music.

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/an-unbreakable-spirit>

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## [An Unbreakable Spirit](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/an-unbreakable-spirit)

 May 15, 2018

In war or peace, Joyce Schmalz is someone you can rely on. When she saw confusion and inequality affecting seniors, Joyce co-founded what is now Seniors First BC.

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/when-the-sound-stops>

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## [When the sound stops](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/when-the-sound-stops)

 Nov 22, 2017

The electrical lines wind off into the distance. Footsteps and soft murmurs echo through the tunnel as mothers come forward, cradling cardboard boxes. Inside the boxes, swaddled in blankets, is one of the only things they were able to bring with...

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/commanding-the-wounded>

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## [Commanding the wounded](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/commanding-the-wounded)

 Nov 11, 2016

The little boat sailed across the open water almost silently, having no idea of what could be waiting below. In 1944, 18-year-old Mary Greenwood made the 70-killometer trip across the open waters of the Bay of Fundy in what she calls “lifeboat...

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/when-they-say-no>

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## [When they say no](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/when-they-say-no)

 Nov 11, 2016

Outside the plane, the world was washed white. Don Monroe, a Flying Officer and flight instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force, squinted, trying to see past the blizzard that had destroyed his visibility. He had been doing a cross-country trip...

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/this-side-of-the-ocean>

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## [This side of the ocean](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/this-side-of-the-ocean)

 Nov 11, 2016

The map on the wall was updated daily. Markers showed enemy lines, stolen territory and surrendered land. Bernice Anderson looked at that map almost every day. Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in September 1926, Bernice’s parents both died before her...

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<https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/finding-happily-ever-after>

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## [Finding happily ever after](https://blog.aspiralife.ca/lestweforget/finding-happily-ever-after)

 Nov 11, 2016

The waters in the Bristol Channel are clear and glitter in the sun. In the fall of 1944, the hum of a single airplane broke their serenity as it streaked across the sky. Arthur Stiff, who was a Hurricane Fighter Pilot in WWII, was searching for a...

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