tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68053324089177581292024-03-05T19:37:58.563-08:00Beaches and BunkersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805332408917758129.post-88823563100736206702021-01-26T12:46:00.094-08:002023-01-28T18:16:45.404-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<h2></h2><h1><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7CFaLbmkQxtJRplqrI1A6l_b1IEaD-GLBfDZ3dpzwWUxmgK2fYfhndeKW4LYNonEoLiFFDbyStzU2NwNJzoDNPCUNZcYRiEKMhl9sX1gNvtJVCM_5mubsft-ZW2DwieT602XA-IXCpI/s1600/5+-+Come+On+Canada+s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7CFaLbmkQxtJRplqrI1A6l_b1IEaD-GLBfDZ3dpzwWUxmgK2fYfhndeKW4LYNonEoLiFFDbyStzU2NwNJzoDNPCUNZcYRiEKMhl9sX1gNvtJVCM_5mubsft-ZW2DwieT602XA-IXCpI/s320/5+-+Come+On+Canada+s.jpg" width="216" /></a></h1></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzYgQ-0zwoULYZOwVZwBKBUX-Jx3550pf8XbpOLhQ3aVSSCaqmFQf0F6NVz1uc5lTZyngUwpdrrL-l6NP90hkR-mHNAREKbKvaeXf7aqNpdHaGXwhxGFME-tFr_UbU-KbOs-Fh89u0U0/s1600/300px-Let'sGoCanada.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzYgQ-0zwoULYZOwVZwBKBUX-Jx3550pf8XbpOLhQ3aVSSCaqmFQf0F6NVz1uc5lTZyngUwpdrrL-l6NP90hkR-mHNAREKbKvaeXf7aqNpdHaGXwhxGFME-tFr_UbU-KbOs-Fh89u0U0/s320/300px-Let'sGoCanada.jpg" width="211" /></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div>"Beaches and Bunkers"</strong></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /> is <strong><em> a trip of a lifetime</em></strong> <br />for individuals, couples, your foursome, </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">This is an opportunity for every Canadian to<br />honour our country's past, our fathers and grandfathers... and play the game we love - golf!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">A <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">description</span></b> and<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> itinerary</span></b> of the tour are below, <br />but first a quick story:</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKMmKjjLZgvKbQ-8jezRkt1oycESWCdUCil0rQrcGis1fCWDTo4fBE-4iSiBNZBt7P8WtPOHKExzKYo-bavVwfHy6Jhi6vW7YUuiFOKFTqyJLJHNoBJL2OJI28g9MBlsAD0CYS9XXpZ4/s1600/Lt.+Col.+RE+Lucy+collage.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKMmKjjLZgvKbQ-8jezRkt1oycESWCdUCil0rQrcGis1fCWDTo4fBE-4iSiBNZBt7P8WtPOHKExzKYo-bavVwfHy6Jhi6vW7YUuiFOKFTqyJLJHNoBJL2OJI28g9MBlsAD0CYS9XXpZ4/w360-h271/Lt.+Col.+RE+Lucy+collage.jpg" width="360" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;"><strong><em>My father landed on those beaches. He was a 'Gunner', commanding a battery of </em></strong></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;"><strong><em>25 lb. guns in the 2nd Canadian Division. As a scratch golfer, he carried his good luck three iron throughout the war! "We should have just played a KP for the win" he told me.</em></strong></span><strong style="color: #38761d;"><em> "Would've saved a lot of lives." When he couldn't play anymore in his early 80s, he drove the cart while I played. During these rounds I began to ask him 'what happened?' On the 50th Anniversary of D-Day we went back to the beach, then followed his footsteps of 1944-45 thru France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. A few years later, at the age of 87, Dad wrote his stories in "Ubique - a Gunner's story". </em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">But so many Canadians don't know what happened to their fathers, grandfathers & uncles 'over there'. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Beaches and Bunkers"</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></strong></span> is for those who want to learn the story of our vets' experience in WW1 and WW2. And along the way we'll play the game our fathers and grandfathers loved - golf!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">And finally... why?</strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyA2CpTmlvS5EqEIT6WeVRa_fB_5fKV-Jfdj7_VoBvmc1k1elP4fOBQENj1zv_0quMIy8sYJariHyY4N2hzErwdv4igVPW_L5ENdUD1j-xO-CMoYSat0TPe9iagOC2Jfw-rqiAVSe2Hw/s500/vimy+1.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="334" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyA2CpTmlvS5EqEIT6WeVRa_fB_5fKV-Jfdj7_VoBvmc1k1elP4fOBQENj1zv_0quMIy8sYJariHyY4N2hzErwdv4igVPW_L5ENdUD1j-xO-CMoYSat0TPe9iagOC2Jfw-rqiAVSe2Hw/w170-h255/vimy+1.jpg" title="Vimy" width="170" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vimy</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My name is Robb Lucy. I'm pleased to see so many of us at our local cenotaphs each November 11, but saddened so few understand what happened in both world wars. May this tour be an admonition for you not to let the stories of our Canadian war heroes disappear. Those experiences forged their tools for life. And it is with those tools they raised us.</div></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"> Interested in Beaches and Bunkers, September 2024?</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> Read about the <b>first Beaches and Bunkers <a href="https://vancouversun.com/travel/international-travel/beaches-and-bunkers/wcm/faad5f24-0de7-438b-b81f-1f2913e20e19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><i>here</i></span></a></b>... a feature in the<b><i><a href="https://vancouversun.com/travel/international-travel/beaches-and-bunkers/wcm/faad5f24-0de7-438b-b81f-1f2913e20e19"><span style="color: red;"> Vancouver Sun</span></a>.</i></b></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Check out the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQx7RQEeez8MBoaMBbWlphCpDK2-81fF/view" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Itinerar</b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>y</b></span></a> of Beaches and Bunkers - the
program and date planned for the Pandemic season of 2020. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The 2024 date
/ tour cost will be along the lines of the 2020 program.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Get your
name on the preliminary interest list for the 2024 program by sending an e-mail
to <b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #38761d;">stories at createmylegacy dawt cawm. </span></i></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="text-indent: 0in;">That way you will receive updates and the new program
when it becomes available.</span></span></li></ul><br /></div></div>
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