'Exactly What Does That Mean?'

Another wonderful story!!'' so much heart and soul'' I too know the nurses'life and do have some insight into ''the Mountie'' lifethanks in a large part to you and Joe. I am sure anyone who reads this will have maybe a better insight in to how things work in the professional world. It is truly a wonderful story Thanks so much. Dolores.

Great story, Bonnie, and good message for all. The pictures added so much to it, and to me they showed the strength of both nurses and mounties through the strong colors in them.
Nancy

As usual Bonnie, you tell it straight from the heart!! I print off your stories & take them to work, so all my friends can read them! You're a hit, here in "little" Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. I've also shared your book with some of my friends!
Love & Miss you!
Robyn

Very well written, Bonnie. I love to read stories with a Canadian slant, and this one was a Winner with a capital W.
Excellent, très bien!
Maria

Great story Bonnie...I went through the army (Combat Arms) when women started coming into the force...We all have a place if we can do the job...Thanks for the story...Have a Safe & Happy Day....Big Hugs...Grizz

In 1997 I retired from the Federal Government with 30 years service. Of those 30 years, I spent 25 as a professional Crash and Structural Firefighter. The remaining time was spent with the Canadian Army and Transport Security Services.
As a professional firefighter, and especially during my many fire inspection tours of government facilities, I had to contend with the many idiotic and baseless remarks that I can only chaulk up to blissful ignorance from the mindless arrogance of society's nincompoops.
Professional firefighters has always been looked upon by a vast majority of our society as "card-playing-coffee-drinking-over-paid janitors."
Ah yes, ignorance is blissful......but only to the ignorant.
I would challenge any "common Joe" or "Sally" from the street to spend a year with any professional Fire Department and go through their every day training of physical, classroom and practical routines (janitor duties included, of course) and let them see for themselves how terribly mindless their remarks are when it is based on the gossip grapevine.
Just to go through our compulsary annual physical test, would bring many a good man, and woman, to their knees post-haste. I have seen some of our people fail the annual test, and was immediately shown the door. They had a year to physically prepare for this gruelling test, but because of laziness or a lack-a-daisical attitude towards training, they failed, even knowing beforehand, the consequences.
I can't speak for the routines of volunteer firefighters, but I am sure they would have a respectable knowledge of their chosen service to their communities.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Bonnie, both your husband and you have a tremendous past to be proud of.
It's your heritage to your family and you know they are proud of their Mom and Dad.
Never mind the nincompoops of this world. They're just too busy sitting on their brains all day and not allowing the required oxygen to get in for reasonable thinking.

Be proud (as I am sure you are) of yours and your husbands accomplishments and savor your years of retirement (also, as I am sure you are)

God Bless,
Paul

What a beautiful and proud pair you two make, but why not......you have a heritage to draw from in so many ways. Loved this sage of the mountie and his lady from Shoal Harbor.....Kathe