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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Here, on 26 July 1972 the Royal Thai Army burned all its American textbooks. From this dates our victory over the communists.
Inscription over the incinerator in the Royal Thai Army Headquarters
- Stuart Slade, "Successful Counter-insurgency: How Thais Burnt the Books and Beat the Guerillas,"Internal Security & CO-IN, an editorial supplement to International Defense Review 22, (October 1989):21.
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December 19
1917: Canadian Conscription law becomes effective
1941: VC won by CSM John Robert Osborn, 1st Battalion, The Winnipeg Grenadiers, Hong Kong (posthumous)
1964: Halifax Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Navy commissions HMCS Annapolis; 20th ship in destroyer escort program.
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