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Catholics in the Public Square: The Role of Catholics in American Life, Culture, and Politics
Published in Hardcover by Our Sunday Visitor (1995)
Authors: Thomas Patrick Melady, Mary Cunningham Agee, and John A. Hammes
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The call to vaocation for today's catholics.
Ambassador Melady has succesfully brought together prominnet catholics from various fields to present to the catholic community the vocation and calling that each of us has from God. The essays in this book show how each of us, no matter what our occupation or station in life, have a unique and important role as catholics.


Korea, Canada's Forgotten War
Published in Textbook Binding by Gage Distribution Co (1983)
Author: John Melady
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We fought in the war, too, Eh???
Listen, eh....Korea was Canada's forgotten war, too, eh? Melady wrote this book to point out that Canadian troops fought in those rice paddies and on those ridges, too. 516 Canadians died as a result of the Korean War. The book is more than battlefield stories. In sweeping prose Melady covers the post world war II tragedy of Korean division; how Maj. General Hodge hurt the process of rebuilding the south; and the desperate, sometimes comical, sometimes heroic, ROK resistance in the wars' early hours.

Back in Canada, Melady shares stories of the rush to enlist..one fella with a scar from his neck to to his naval who claimed it was for an appendectomy; another guy in the medical corps, who told the psychiatrists he liked to go out at night and strangle sheep.

But by far the most intriguing story is that of the mysterious Dr. Cyr, aka Fred Demara. From March to October 1951 this fellow masqueraded as Surgeon-Lieutenant Cyr and practiced medicine (admittedly often by stealing a look at a textbook or soliciting help from other medics) on the Cayuga for six months, even managing to pull one of the Captains teeth. Eventually, the real Dr. Cyr, back in New Brunswick, happened to read a story about himself in the newspaper. The ruse fell apart shortly afterwords.

Still, the book is not all jest and off-the-cuff irony. Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry fought gallantly and tragically at Kapyong-ni in early 1951, preventing a breach in the UN lines and perhaps the fall of Seoul (again). For this they were awarded the Presidential Citation for 'Outstanding Heroism'-- the only Canadians to ver receive this award. Quite an accomplishment for soldiers who, a few months before, were afraid the War would be over before they arrived in Korea.


Cross of Valour
Published in Paperback by Scholastic Book Service (1985)
Author: John Melady
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Escape from Canada! : the untold story of German POWs in Canada, 1939-1945
Published in Unknown Binding by Macmillan of Canada ()
Author: John Melady
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Escape from Canada!: The Untold Story of German Pows in Canada
Published in Paperback by General Pub Co Ltd (1986)
Author: John Melady
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Heartbreak and Heroism: Canadian Search and Rescue
Published in Hardcover by Dundurn Press, Ltd. (1997)
Author: John Melady
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Home Owners' Complete Garden Handbook
Published in Unknown Binding by Putnam Publishing Group, The (01 January, 1960)
Author: John H. Melady
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Pilots
Published in Hardcover by McClelland & Stewart (1989)
Author: John Melady
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Public Catholicism: The Challenge of Living the Faith in a Secular American Culture
Published in Hardcover by Our Sunday Visitor (1996)
Authors: Thomas P. Melady, Mary Cunningham Agee, Richard John, Rev Neuhaus, William J. Bennett, Henry J. Hyde, Ralph, Jr Reed, Mary Ellen Bork, Douglas W. Kmiec, Michael Novak, and John M. Haas
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The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II : The Pastoral Visit As a New Vocabulary of the Sacred
Published in Hardcover by Praeger Publishers (1999)
Author: Margaret B. Melady
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