Postcard from Nova Scotia By Matthew Townsend For Americans, November 11 marks the moment in which we give thanks to all military veterans, living and dead, for their service to God and country. Memorial Day, held on the last Monday in May, serves to acknowledge and remember people who died in that service. Memorial Day is said to have emerged from the established practice … [Read more...] about What We Remember on Remembrance Day
World War I
Book Celebrates ‘Woodbine Willie’
Stories of non-combatant heroes in World War I abound. One of the best-known was the Rev. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, widely celebrated as “Woodbine Willie” for his gifts of cigarettes and Bibles to Allied soldiers. For many soldiers, Studdert Kennedy’s face was the last one they saw before they died. He would whisper the Lord’s Prayer to dying men and hold their hands as … [Read more...] about Book Celebrates ‘Woodbine Willie’
A Legendary Truce
By Retta BlaneyActor Alex Gwyther spent a night in a replica of a World War I battlefield trench outside London because he wanted to enhance his one-man play. By morning, though, exhausted from having slept little on the chicken wire in the “officers’ quarters,” he was no longer thinking about his acting skills.“What really struck me was I was dying for a bacon sandwich and a … [Read more...] about A Legendary Truce