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[morgaine_x]

I can hear the Royal Newfoundland Regiment band as they parade to the War Memorial.

All across the country, it's Canada Day.

Here, it's Memorial Day.

Beaumont Hamel and the RNR




My great-uncle was one of the few who came back.

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[sobelle.livejournal.com]

local WWI histories like these make me so sad.

Indeed, me too... perhaps because it breaks the hugeness of war down into recognizable pieces where we can know the ones who died and suffer with the ones who were left behind.

Thanks for the Iolaire links. I hadn't heard of it before. My sister-in-law's late Mother was from Stornoway but she never seemed much interested in talking about it.