It is hard to be so far away from my country in times of grief, and after the tragic events of the past several weeks, Canada has much to grieve. The Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa promise to be a somber and emotional affair this year, and although I am …
When I was 14, my family and I travelled to Belgium, and it was during this trip that we spent a day driving around the countryside of Flanders, more commonly known as Flanders Fields. Nearly a century ago, this land was the site of The World War, The Great War, and ultimately, World War I, …
John McCrae’s World War I poem “In Flanders Fields” is one of the most well known written works from the Great War. For myself, it is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever read, and I can recite it word for word. Written on the battlefield by McCrae in 1915 after attending the …