Tag: World War I

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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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And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Remembering Our Remembrance Day … In Australia

This year on Remembrance Day I’m remembering the service of remembrance we attended on a beach in Australia at dawn.

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Love, Sex, Pain and The Whole Damned Thing… or October Book Club

On a dark and windy (but not stormy) night, just before Halloween, my book club gathered at the beautiful home of one our members, to eat and drink and talk about war. More specifically about books on World War I. …

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