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my grandfather was sent to the first world war with his younger brother, they didn't get to fight they did lots of hard work and labor during their wartime   

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letter: when my grandfather was forced into joining the war as a young adult he was surprised to see that his younger brother was also enlisted in the war, when my grandfather had to leave his wife and kids they were so devastated when he had to leave them, and the same for his younger brother but he had to leave his wife and kids also his parents, during the time my grandfather was in the war my grandmother had to take over his job and watch the kids which was a lot for her to do, for 2 years the black African soldiers did labor and many other things but the only thing they didn't get to do was fight and they were mistreated because of their skin tone which was a terrible experience into the first world war for black Africans, so when my grandfather and his younger brother returned from war they never felt better than before, when they had arrived they had to part ways from each other my grandfather went back to reunite with his family the same for his younger brother all of them were happy when they had returned and had not died in the deadly battle

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my second cousin was one of the indigenous soldiers in the world war he was a brave and kind man throughout all the other indigenous soldiers  

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letter: my second cousin was a very brave and courageous man, in fact, he was one of the indigenous heroes in the first world war, unlike the black African soldiers the ingenious soldiers fought in the war with the other Canadians and lots of people sustained lots of injury and wounds even though they injured they had fought with all their might soon after the war ended my second cousin wanted to journey around places and he had met a journalist named anna lin who was interested in his story for being one of the indigenous solder soon they both got to know each other soon later they had been pronounced wedded to each other they got married  they had four children some named after friends he made in the war anna lin named one of the girls after her mother and named the other one dana after all of their kids had grown up and finished school they left from their parents clutstes soon after they left the parents had time with only each other so they spent it to the fullest but they both had died during one of their amazine journeys they both had a miraculous life with each other

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my uncle was a man who had good intentions but most people didn't see him that way cause of his skin tone they didn't want black people to do construction 

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letter: it started on July 1916 when the military authorized the NO.2 construction battalion, which was the most significant black unit in Canada. Members like my uncle were proud to serve the king. However, there were still some issues the black people still faced racism both at their homes and on a boat despite all of their hard work and their time in the war, around the time when the first world war had begun people were looking for white men to join it but when some black people were happy to obliged or applied they were rejected some even said that this is a white man's war some were also told there services were not required, a fact at least 200 black men were rejected. during that time Canada was recruiting officers for the battalion and the commanding officers didn't want black people to be in it, but my uncle had never given up hope sure we get kicked out or not meet the qualifications so my uncle had an idea why make our own battalion so they did they got it a construction battalion made for coloured men and was also overseas they way it got created form them asking the British governor because he didn't want them to learn how to fight if they were in the war they would get battle experience and might take down British colonies so he made the No. 2 construction battalion

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my elder sister was a person with a lots of determination and she loved to dance for hours well other than that she would watch cartoons with family members 

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letter: when we reached the roaring twenties it was only my half-elder sister and her dad living together at the time and one day her dad bought a radio for the news but when my elder sister heard some music playing for the first time she had been rushing down the stairs like a rampaging lion or bear anyways when she reached downstairs face to face with her dad and the radio she bluntly asks him what is that noise because she had never heard something like that before so her dad tells her that it's music and after that experience, she made it her life goal to become a famous musician like her ideal Elvis Presley who was a popular artist at the time after that she had worked her hardest with her dance moves and singing she had become an amazing musician through all of her hard work even her father was proud of her because it's a huge compliment her voice was heard by many people said her voice was like Bessie smith who was one of the first black females to record and blues song and after that she met a great man and they lived a long life together until she died in an axident witch left her husband in despar on that same fatful day he had a surprise for her but instead he was left in tears after her death he never married again after my half sisters death she was very dear to him

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letter: my aunty was in a residential school without choice had to speak and talk different rather than she usually would in her hometown with her parents    

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letter: when my aunt was taken from her home she was sent away for four too five years to a residential school the first thing they taught the females is how to knit clothing if they misbehave or don't listen the teachers would either cut off their hair and take away their power to write notes to their families, one day she had tried to leave the school and return home on a boat or canoe she thought it would be for the best to leave because she didn't want to learn those things, For Instance learning a new and different language that she never heard of or spoke and she didn't want to get in trouble and if you get in trouble for a girl if you have pigtails a style of hair for girls the teacher would cut it off and even worse than that you either would get beaten and strapped even some students were shackled to their bed and if you spoke your native language people would say that they would shove needles into your tongue or your mouth and abuse there was terrible and after all of these reasons my aunt decided to stay their for her remaining years because she didn't want to get in trouble

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when the stock market crashed it's when it had happened the great depression the people were in despair because of this incident went on for 10 years 

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letter: when everybody heard that the stock market had crashed they were getting bear calls no breaks because a lot of people had invested all of their savings into the stock market so most people were poor most had lost their jobs unlike my parents who still had jobs they work very hard to keep them day after day but until that one fateful day when my father named terry got an injury to his leg at work he had to take a break for two weeks but in the end, he was fired so my mother named Lisa, heard the news she had to work harder than before but she passed out from fatigue and she was also fired from all the money they got from the job made them survive from three whole years and then I was born they couldn't suffice any more so my brother john active had a good idea to send a letter to the PM which he did and he sent us 5$ which was a lot in the 1930s my mother and father began to applie for jobs again when they were all better my dad got his leg fixed and mother promised she wouldn't tire her self out again so they both worked agin

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when the great depression had ended because war had stared again which made people get jobs for building weapons and armor for the solders 

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letter: when something ends a new chapter shall begin before WWII just two days before my brother had become very interested in war and so when he heard that there would be a second WWII he was overjoyed so he enlisted without our parents knowing he told them that e would be on a trip overseas for 6 years and since he was in his mid-twenties they had allowed him and while he was training for war I was a toddler age of 5 most people thought I was intelligent. my brother thought that it was going to be like everything that he dreams of it to be but boy he was dead wrong first he has never faced racism before so it was new for him even with that treatment even though he was only allowed to fight in the second last year of the war which is 1944 and by the time the war was done my brother was in his thirties and I was eleven years old, he had not come back to the families he wanted to travel to different places and see how he would be treated their but he came home on holidays and sooner or later he had found the lover of his life named marlin it was like love, at first sight, they both got along well they started to date then my brother john popped the question and she accepted and soon they were wedded had 2 beautiful children which were two females twins one Cathy and sam the four of them lived happily together and some times with their uncle me who would gradually take care of them

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the battle of hong kong was known as the defence of hong kong and also the fall of hong kong it was Canadian soldiers fighting for the British army 

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letter: Japan had already invaded China on July 7, 1937, japan did something surprising three weeks prior to when Canada's arrival in hong kong, Japanese soldiers attacked the US naval fleet and six hours later they started their attack on hong kong, my father terry wanted to help the country with its battle against Japan and his wife Lisa was worried for him at his age enlisting into the battle even after he left she was still a bit worried for him, I and my brother john didn't know that our father went to the battle we only found out after our mother had called us on the rotary phone first she called my elder brother then me and then we came to meet her and waited patiently for him to come back after on the news they say that the battle for hong kong has ended after 14 days on the day of Christmas Canada lost 290, solders and had 493 wounded Canada had retreated and some Canadian soldiers were taken to be a prisoner to the japan army when my father came home he sure was tired and surprised we almost gave him a heart attack because he did not expect to see I and my brother their at all which was really funny to us.

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d-day was an invasion into Normandy from the germans forces battle on Juno beach Normandy many soldiers fought from different countries

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diary entry: when d-day happens to the people it was one of the most amphibious operations in the history of the military more than 10,000 Canadian sailors in 110 warships and there were 15 RCAF squadrons and participation of 14,000 soldiers on d-day, Juno beach was one of five beaches that were assaulted and this day is also known as one of the greatest and largest invasion and this battle was fought on all three seas and land and air. more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the battle and this battle can be considered to be Hitlers begging and end of Hitler's regime. during the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing. This figure includes around 210,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 killed amongst the ground forces and a further 16,000 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. This specific beach was assigned to the Canadian Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and 2nd Armoured Brigade. 155,000 troops landed on Normandy as soon as possible because the Canadians had successfully captured their shoreline positions at Juno Beach and penetrated the farthest inland. d-day was a struggle but only the beginning to liberate France.

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The Korean War began 25 June 1950, when North Korean armed forces invaded South Korea. The war's combat phase lasted until an armistice was signed 27 July 1953. As part of a United Nations (UN) force, 26,791 Canadian military personnel served in the Korean War, during both the combat phase and as peacekeepers afterward. After the two world wars, Korea remains Canada's third-bloodiest overseas conflict, taking the lives of 516 Canadians and wounding more than 1,200.

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“I come from the very heart of America.”
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