Tag: Wilfred Owen

books

Mired in the Mud … Thoughts on Poetry and Fiction and War

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I usually write something about Remembrance Day in November.  For many years, I taught at a school named for John McCrae, who wrote the famous poem “In Flanders Fields,” so ...
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Arras

Paying Our Respects … in Northern France

Our trip to France continues. We visited Arras, Verdun, the Vimy Monument, and one war grave that's special to me.
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