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  Alan Joachim Nanders June 7, 2013 at 11:25am

  Robby I have enjoyed my recent contacts with you and am duly impressed by the breadth of your life experiences and by the vigour with which you appear to continue your life. - I enjoyed your thoughtful inputs and insights when I chaired the telephone conference on June 1st.

   

  I enjoyed your Veterans Affairs comment about "What are puttees?", where a vets cites puttees as a cause of his varicose veins. That kind of ineptness reminds me of the 9 months delay I encountered in 1996 when after 25 years out of uniform I applied to work with Army Cadets as a CIC Officer. ( I had previously served both in the ranks and as an officer starting in the early 1960's). The reason for the delay was that I could not find my 1962 high school graduation certificate, which was the standard for becoming a Cadet Instructor Corps Officer. Military bureaucracy did not care that I was a contract high school teacher with two respectable degrees from the University of Toronto.  After 9 months of delay, a Colonel in Ottawa finally decided they could risk enrolling me even without having seen my missing Grade 13 Graduation diploma! - Enough said!

  Working with Cadets was certainly worth the wait, and gave me a great sense of giving back to a society and to the country Canada that had been good to me, since my father brought us to this country when I was 12 years old.  Cheers,  Alan Nanders