But we have to do that in order to spend money to protect and to enhance China's investment in the Alberta Tar Sands. It's our legislature's sworn duty to accomplish this.<br><br>w.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Donovan Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>It is <span><span>unfortunate</span></span>, Idaho's appreciation for many of those that have served this nation is to slash their Medicaid in their elder years<var></var>. </span></div>
<div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <div style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);min-height:0px;line-height:0;font-size:0px" readonly></div> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:36 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] World War I Has Finally Ended<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div><div><div></div><div>Courtesy of the BBC at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16929653" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16929653</a><div><div> </div>
<div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><h1 style="line-height:34px;letter-spacing:-1px;font-size:2.46em;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-weight:bold;padding:0.25cm 0px 52px">'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110</h1>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt;font-weight:bold">A woman thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of World War I has died aged 110.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Florence Green, from King's Lynn, Norfolk, served as a mess steward at RAF bases in Marham and Narborough.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">She died in her sleep on Saturday night at Briar House care home, King's Lynn. Mrs Green had been due to celebrate her 111th birthday on 19 February.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Briton Claude Choules, died in Australia aged 110 in May 2011.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">The last three World War I veterans living in
the UK - Bill Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch - all died in 2009.</div><span style="line-height:16px;font-size:1.23em;display:block;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">'Wonderful mother'</span><span style="line-height:16px;font-size:1.23em;display:block;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><br>
</span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Mrs Green leaves behind three children, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Her husband Walter - an army veteran who served in both world wars and a
porter at King's Lynn station - died aged 82 in about 1975, one of her daughters said.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
The 110-year-old had been at the care home since the end of November. She previously lived in King's Lynn with her daughter May, aged 90.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
Mrs Green's other daughter June Evetts, 76, lives in Oundle, Northamptonshire, and her son Bob, 85, lives in Edinburgh.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
Born in London before moving to Norfolk, Mrs Green was 17 years old when she joined the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on 13
September 1918 - two months before the armistice.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">She left on 18 July 1919.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">In 2010 Mrs Green's story emerged after a researcher uncovered her records.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Mrs Evetts said: "She was just the most wonderful mother you could ask for. No-one had a bad word to say about her."</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">She said her mother had rarely talked
about her work with the WRAF as she "didn't like to blow her own trumpet", but added she was "proud of her service and loved the people she worked with".</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
"I'm ever so proud of her. It's such an achievement to be that last person," Mrs Evetts said.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
After she left the WRAF, the mess steward married at the age of 19 and worked for much of her life at a hotel in King's Lynn.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
In her spare time she was heavily involved with the Royal British Legion and knitted clothes and toys
for children.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Mrs Evetts said her mother used to crochet blankets for children at the local Queen Elizabeth Hospital up until her 90s.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Sue Bray, administrator at Mrs Green's care home, said: "She really was a lovely lady. Everyone thought a lot of her. She will be sadly missed."</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Group Captain David Cooper, station commander at RAF Marham, said in a statement he was very sad to hear that Mrs Green had died and added members of the airforce would be at her
funeral.</div><span style="line-height:16px;font-size:1.23em;display:block;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">'Good time'</span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
Speaking to the BBC in 2010, Mrs Green said she had served breakfast, lunch and tea in the WRAF and had got to know many different people during her service.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
She added she "learned a lot of different things" and had a "good time" there.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
According to The National
Archives, the WRAF was created to free up men for active service.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">It said women had to undertake a variety of jobs and were used as drivers, mechanics, cooks and office clerks.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">At first they were based in Britain, but later about 500 women served in France and Germany.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">The WRAF was disbanded on 1 April 1920.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">
At the start of World War II, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was formed and renamed the Women's Royal Air Force on 1 February 1949.</div><span style="line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif">Mrs Green's funeral will be held at Mintlyn Crematorium, Bawsey, in Norfolk, on 16 February, her funeral directors confirmed.</span></div>
<div><font face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:24px">---------------</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:24px">Mrs. Green worked as a waitress on RAF air bases in Norfolk.</span></font></div>
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There"</div><div><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9XZB6O26w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9XZB6O26w</a></span></div><div><span> <br></span><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Post Falls, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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