THIS KID IS GOOD!

THIS KID IS GOOD!

Purple Rain (by Prince) cover is by Eva Vergilova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFHQtgBtyc 

Every now and then—more like every 12 seconds—there's a video that suddenly clicks with the universe and racks up an untold number of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter shares, views and comments.

Below, one such video. It's a homemade clip of guitarist Bulgarian Eva Vergilova performing an instrumental version of Prince's "Purple Rain."

Posted by Richard...

6 MONTHS TODAY – YOU’RE MISSING

6 MONTHS TODAY – YOU’RE MISSING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z8-9WwjeqM

You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff
and they're fine but they don't fall, until they look down?

I came to believe that this was the secret of life,
that if you "Never Look Down" all will be well but it's more than that.
It's not just about not looking down, what it is about is realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.  

So Joyce today, six Months seems like six seconds that feel like six years and yet you’re so close but also you’re so far away…

So when GOD decides one day through JESUS CHRIST; that on this day Joyce,

I shall be with Him and also be near you again.

Amen. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tre-24uxVK8

Praying to JESUS and thinking of you Joyce, 
from your husband Richard.

6 MONTHS TODAY…

FROM: THE CANADIAN MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

F.Y.I. TO RICHARD ABBENBROEK FROM:
THE CANADIAN MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

From: DND_MND@forces.gc.ca
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:14 AM
To: bayohunter@shaw.ca
Cc: CIMS_OPER@pm.gc.ca
Subject: RE: Atten: Minister of National Defence:

Dear Mr. Abbenbroek:
Thank you for your email about the events that unfolded in Ottawa on 22 October 2014. I appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns.
Canadians are shocked by the tragic death of Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Our hearts and profound sympathy go out to his loved ones, friends, and colleagues. And we fervently hope for the full recovery of those who were injured in the attack.

Canada is not immune to attacks like this, and we have seen such attacks occur in the countries of our friends and allies. As the Prime Minister said, this will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts and those of our national security agencies to take all necessary steps to identify and counter threats and keep Canada safe here at home. And we will continue to fight terrorist organizations that brutalize people in other countries with the hope of bringing their savagery to our shores. They will not find a safe haven in Canada.

I truly appreciate your offer to stand on guard at the National War Memorial. However, security measures have now been put in place to ensure that our sentries are protected while they stand on guard.
Again, thank you for writing, and please allow me to take this opportunity to thank you for your service in the defence of Canada.
Yours truly,

Hon. Rob Nicholson, PC, QC, MP
Minister of National Defence
c.c. Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
*******************************************************
From: Richard G. Abbenbroek [mailto:bayohunter@shaw.ca]
Sent: October-22-14 11:49 AM
To: DND_MND@forces.gc.ca
Subject: Atten: Minister of National Defence:
From: Richard G. Abbenbroek Sent: 22/10/2014 11:48:43 AM
 
Minister of National Defence:
The Honourable Robert Nicholson,

Dear Sir,
I am shocked by the attack of our Parliament Buildings and sacred War Memorial for Canada’s Fallen.
I beg you to re- activate me into the R.C.A.F., as I will stand on guard there.
Yes I am older 59 and not well but I know what a bayonet is for, please consider my request as I a serious.
I also tweeted PM Harper:

@pmharper Sir, if I may - I believe WAR MEASURES ACT TIME! I also would like to please be re-activated to help, even guard our War Memorial!
 
Sincerely,
Richard Abbenbroek  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ
Photo of Richard Abbenbroek R.C.A.F. 1973

Good night from Richard.

CHRIST JESUS;

Thank you for all that we have. May Your Grace & Peace be given to all People and I pray that they all have a good night’s rest. As I also ask that You GOD, bestow Your blessings on them to!
So tonight, I shall lay me down in GOD's Peace & take my rest; for it is thy LORD GOD, that makest me dwell all the days of my life & forever in His house, in Love & Safety. Amen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju8cy0O4S8U

Good night from Richard.

TOWER OF LONDON POPPIES - 888,246 CERAMIC POPPIES.

TOWER OF LONDON POPPIES - 888,246 CERAMIC POPPIES.
Each Poppy represents a BRITISH, CANADIAN and OTHER COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS.
Who were Killed during the First World War.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/…/the-power-of-poppies-by-the-numbers…
TOWER OF LONDON POPPIES
http://poppies.hrp.org.uk/…

In Flanders Fields-A Remembrance Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGUt5SqAvk

IN FLANDERS FIELDS By:
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place;
and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw the torch;
be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
**********************
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD,
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD;
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM,
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM...
“As GOD gave His grace to all!”
Amen...  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkGNcntD7s

Posted by Richard…
In Memory of my Wife Joyce’s Great Uncle
JOHN CHARLES HENWOOD
b. 17 Jun 1895, d. 20 Apr 1919
John Charles Henwood was born on Monday, 17 June 1895 at Hunstville, District of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, and his father was the informant. Dr. J. W. Hart attended at the birth. He began military service on 12 November 1915 at Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, when he signed his attestation papers, becoming regimental #1000011, with the 226'th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces. He was living at Dauphin, Manitoba, single and working as a engineer. He listed his Mother, Rachel, Grandview, Manitoba as his next of kin and that he had not served previously. He was born in Huntsville, Ontario, June 17, 1895. He was considered fit to serve on the 12'th November 1915 and described as: 5', 8" tall, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Methodist. He had no distinguishing marks. He ended military service on 24 October 1916 when he was discharged by the medical board due to what we now call P.T.S.D., or as it was then termed; “Shell Shock”. John died on Sunday, 20 April 1919 at Grandview, Manitoba, Canada, at age 23 years,10 months and 3 days, of a gunshot wound, assailant unknown. LEST WE FORGET!

In Affectionate Remembrance of Private WILLIAM BROUGHTON

LAST POST TRIBUTE
REMEMBERANCE DAY 2014
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqcSWOYUE-Q

In Affectionate Remembrance of
Private WILLIAM BROUGHTON
469665, 2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
who died age 22
on Wednesday 6 September 1916.
https://picasaweb.google.com/112346348017623289226/PrivateWilliamBroughton?authkey=Gv1sRgCMGWrOCLmabX6gE#slideshow/6079252156086510098 

Private BROUGHTON, Son of Silvanus and Christena Broughton, of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Died at the 18th General Hospital, France, on the 6th day of September, 1916, from wounds received at the Battle of Courcelette part of the battle of the Somme, in his the 22nd year. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEX9ppGTe_0

Private William Broughton
Name: BROUGHTON, WILLIAM Initials: W
Nationality: Canadian, Rank: Private,
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Service No: 469665, Age: 22, Date of Death: 06/09/1916,
K.I.A. due to a Gunshot Wound to the Head, while in the
line during the Battle of Courcelette, on a pre-battle trench raid
then transported to No.18 Hospital Camiers France.
The term for this every day event of WW1 was called “Trench Wastage”
From Sunday, 28 June 1914 to Monday, 11 November 1918 = 1597 days
(both sides totals)
9.7 million military deaths = 6074 deaths per day.

Battle: Battle of Courcelette September 15th, 1916. http://pages.interlog.com/~fatjack/somme.htm
Courcelette, Battle of. This was an episode in the fighting in the Somme valley in France in the summer and autumn of 1916. On September 15, the Canadian Corps attacked the German trenches before the village of Courcelette, and before nightfall the village had been captured by the 22nd battalion (French Canadians of Montreal) and the 25th (Nova Scotians). The operation was notable as the first occasion on which the Canadians acted in conjunction with the newly-invented tanks. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/…/canadian-virtual-…/detail/496986
 
Additional information: Son of Silvanus and Christena Broughton, of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Cemetery:
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais France
http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1frenchcemeteries/etaples.htm
Grave or Reference Panel Number:
X. B. 19A.
Location:Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne France.
 
The Military Cemetery is just to the north of the town,
on the west side of the road to Boulogne France. Cemetery Historical Information: During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,773 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915 - 35 of these burials are unidentified. 
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx…
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx…
 
William Broughton name is written in the Canadian Book of Remembrance that is housed in Canada's Peace Tower.
Pte. William Broughton is on Page 59, #49 down on the left side. 

IN FLANDERS FIELDS By:
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place;
and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw the torch;
be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
**********************
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them...
May God give His grace to all!
Amen... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKzUbIjr30
****************************
Remembered with honour by Canada
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
COMMEMORATED IN PERPETUITY BY
THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER
In Memory of
WILLIAM BROUGHTON
Private
469665
2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
who died on
Wednesday 6 September 1916 . Age 22 .
******************************* 
Remembrance Day: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycpk0A4_Po 
Christmas in the Trenches:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHObCL2luMw 
The Maple Leaf Forever:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg05TyR9CAo 
Remembrance Day Canada: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7z_eANAP

THE 2nd BATTALION EASTERN ONTARIO REGIMENT 

 CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was created in response to the First World War. The battalion comprised local militia in many regions of Ontario (and even from Quebec City). Men came from as far away as Sault Ste. Marie, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to join in Canada’s military endeavour. Local militia gathered at Valcartier, in August 1914 and became part of the 2nd Battalion.
 
The original officers were drawn from the various regiments that recruited for the battalion, including the Governor General's Foot Guards of Ottawa, the 16th Prince Edward Regiment, the 40th Northumberland Regiment, the 41st Brockville Rifles, also the 42nd Regiment,
Lanark and Renfrew among some others.
 
The battalion boarded the S.S. Cassandra from Quebec City on 22 September 1914, but sailed only as far as the Gaspé Basin, where more troops were collected. The battalion finally left the Gaspé Basin on 3 October as part of a convoy of at least 30 other ships, carrying a combined 32,000 Canadian soldiers, which would be the first of the Canadian infantry contributions to the war.
The S.S. Cassandra landed at Plymouth on 25 October 1914, where the battalion disembarked and began rigorous training for the European battlefield.
 
On 8 February 1915, the battalion was mobilized for war. They sailed out of England aboard the S.S. Blackwell, bound for France. The battalion’s first taste of battle came later that month, on 19 February, when they entered the trench system at Armentières.
 
Their first battle was the Second Battle of Ypres, in April 1915. When the battalion pulled out of the battle, on 29 April, the final count included 6 officers and 68 other ranks killed, 4 officers and 158 other ranks wounded, and 5 officers and 302 other ranks missing, for a combined loss of 543 men.
The 2nd Battalion also fought at the battles of Ypres, Battle of Courcelette, St. Julien, Festubert, Pozières, Vimy (1917), Arleux, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, and Canal du Nord, to name only a few. By the end of the war, 242 officers and 5,084 other ranks had fought with the battalion. Of those, 52 officers and 1,227 other ranks were killed in action, accidentally killed, or died of their injuries.
 
At 8:30 on the morning of 24 April 1919, the 2nd Bn. Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.) C.E.F. was officially demobilized at Kingston, Ontario.
 

Posted in loving memory from William Broughton's great nephew, 

Richard Abbenbroek and Family

The Green Fields of France: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1nG4ezPQ0

Lest We Forget!

ISIS SAYS IT CAN ENSLAVE PEOPLE… 
Find out what the Quran says and why they're wrong: 
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2014/11/05/isis-says-islam-justifies-slavery-what-does-islamic-law-say/?hpt=hp_c2 
LEST WE FORGET: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FfCLTkn8CA 
Cause I remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOqcHRTDp8 
Posted by Sir Richard…
Jesse Cook - Byzantium Underground 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3j2P1_jGE 
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil,
is for good men to do nothing!”
by Edmund Burke

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

HAPPY GUY FAWKES NIGHT!

Wednesday, November 5, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMH1AimA72w 

NOTE; Today in England it is The 5th of November,
And now only in England is Guy Fawkes Night celebrated.
We changed that day to Halloween or All Hallows Eve, 

a Salem Witch thing.

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
God save the King!

A clip from the movie "V":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6HbZXI9Y0 
V: I can assure you that I mean you no harm
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form…following the function of “what”, and what I am is…a man in a mask
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I’m not questioning… your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking on the paradox… of asking a masked man… who he is.
Evey: Oh…right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character…of this dramatis persona.
Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation, of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified…and has vowed to vanquish…these venal and virulent…vermin van-guarding vice…and vouchsafing… the violently vicious…and veracious violation…of violition!
The only verdict is vengeance…a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such… shall one day vindicate…the vigilant…and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage…veers most verbose, so let me simply add…that it is my very good honor to meet you…
and you may call me "V".
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I’m quite sure they will say so. But to whom I might ask am I speaking?
Evey: I’m Evey
V: Evey? E.V. Of course.

God Save The Queen!
Posted by, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEWbwq36-98 
Fire Photo by Daniel Thomas...

Evey: Richard, are you like a crazy person?
I’m quite sure they will say so Evey. = Sir Richard.... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQClgNRoPc

ISIS QUESTION:

ISIS QUESTION: 
What is the difference between NATZI's and ISIS?

ANSWER: The NATZI's spoke German. 

LEST WE FORGET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FfCLTkn8CA

The Royal Canadian Legion has produced a two minutes of silence movie, no sound, just video. 

I am over 57 and the Canadian Armed Forces think that I'm too old to track down terrorists. Apparently you can't be older than 57 to join the military. IMO they've got the whole thing ass-backwards...

Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only have memories about sex once a month if that, leaving us approximately 86,399 additional seconds per day to concentrate on terrorists.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a Dangerous Soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are all bad-tempered and impatient and maybe letting us remove some terrorist that desperately deserve it, will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up lots during the night to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up removing terrorists and at the same time, putting the fun back into fundamentalist.

If captured, we wouldn’t or really couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number for us would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys too. For thanks to our loving women folk, bosses and rush hour traffic, we're used to getting screamed and yelled at the same time! Also, we're already used to soft food in MRE’s and we've also developed over time an appreciation for guns. As we've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming, yelling and hunting for that darn remote!

The C.A.F. could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've watched many news casts with war clips and I never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side anywhere, nor did I ever do any push ups after long ago I completed my basic training. Actually, the running part is also kind of a waste of energy; too because, I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. An 18-year old still hasn’t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade one’s eyes, not the back of his head, or that his pants are to be pulled up!

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home safe and sound, to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way. So let us old guys track down those terrorists.

As it would be the last thing a terrorist would want to see; that is, a couple million pissed off old farts with bad attitudes, holding automatic weapons. Old Farts who already know their best years are far behind them and that their futures are all short, so we will make the best of them!
Cause I remember: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWcDt8566g 
Posted by Sir Richard… 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM