I shovelled after breakfast on Monday, after our 10+ cm of snow. It is still snowing! More on that in another post.
Nov. 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada. I worked so hard, during my 25 years teaching, to help my students understand history. We wrote about it, created moments, wrote and put on plays during assemblies, we interviewed and honoured relatives.
🇳🇱 I've been following a story in the Netherlands. It is the location of the Netherlands American Cemetery (wiki). I hadn't heard of it, although I know there are many sites overseas from WW II, and people who have not forgotten how humans stepped up for one another.
There is a terrific project to reveal the carvings from the tunnels under Vimy Ridge. New technology has helped with that.
In recent news regarding wars and history:
I read a thread on BlueSky about the fact that Trump's people have removed references and honours for Black Soldiers who worked in this burial site, burying thousands of fallen comrades. The site commemorates African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europeans from the grip of the Nazis. These soldiers fought both the Germans and racism. It is shameful, what is going on with these people in power. A familiar story.
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| a thread on BlueSky |
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We have to remember and tell their stories. The battle against racism, injustice, and abuse of power, must continue. Sadly. Thanks to all who served in the past, present and future. The black and white photos are from my late mother's collection. They wrote to servicemen during WW II.
7 comments:
You are celebrating the day as it should be. Good for you! Love the black squirrels from yesterday's post. Wonder what that hawk was thinking looking at that box!
Yikes. You got way more than we did! I think you would have been a fabulous history teacher. The Netherlands project sounds fascinating!
Horrible! I hadn't heard about the removal, thank you for sharing.
Hari OM
Every year, those of us who truly remember will never forget... sadly the powers that be would rather we were amnesiac... YAM xx
What a collection of photos. Very interesting how your Mom wrote to the soldiers. Linda in Kansas
My husband and I visited tan American cemetery in England. I wrote about in on my blog back then (2013), and still remember how deeply touching it was. So many hundreds of graves!
In 2019 two of my sisters and I went to England, but spent a day in France, visiting the graves of two great-uncles who are buried there. Again, I was moved to tears by those graves. These were English men, my mother's family, and we were the very first in the family to have visited them.
Schools started to put much more effort into remembrance. You were one who did your part.
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