11/11/11
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the…
Remembrance Day
The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Battle of Vimy Ridge Edition)
General Ludwig von Falkenhausen presents “The Week of Suffering” (circa April 2-9, 1917) –>slide 2 Artillery relentless I’d guess about a million shells Somehow can target our artillery, even though…
Take a moment to breathe…
…and remember those who breathe no more. Those who do dare to forget doom us to repeat past mistakes. So take that moment or two today. To. Remember. Trashy, Ottawa,…
We Remember
Copper Roof Politics remembers the brave sacrifice our service men and women have made, and continue to make, in active service. These men and women sacrifice their time, well being,…
Rememberance Day, 2011
I awoke this morning to the refrain, "And the band played waltzing Matilda." I thought of my father, who spent some of World War II in Australia. Most of the…
Remembering Peace
Let's use today as an excuse to begin spreading words of peace instead of banging the drums of war.
Occupy Ottawa’s Little Remembrance Day Dilemma
The Occupy Ottawa Movement faces a little moral dilemma on Remembrance Day tomorrow: to protest or not to protest? Remembrance Day is a solemn day for Commonwealth countries. A day…
Pte. Thomas Earl Butler: 17 March 1896 – 1 March 1917
It’s been over ninety-four years since my paternal grandmother’s brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. Grandma…
I am a pacifist…
… I detest war and its machinery. I hate the glorification of war or the use of the military as a political tool. I see no need for guns in…
Poppycock!
It’s no big deal to drop a loonie in the Legion collection box and pin a poppy on your lapel as a good many people do around this time of…
In Remembrance of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.– John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), in a speech at the White House, 1962 I write this on the…
In Remembrance of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), in a speech at the White House, 1962I write this on the eve…
In Remembrance of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.– John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), in a speech at the White House, 1962 I write this on the…
In Remembrance of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), in a speech at the White House, 1962I write this on the eve…
Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler’s Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so…
Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler's Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so…
Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler’s Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so…
Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler's Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so…