pferguson | April 5, 2020
The Queen’s Speech… This generation is as strong as any. (5 April 2020. Queen Elizabeth II) The Queen today has spoken, providing a message of hope, resilience, and courage in these difficult times. As a Second World War civilian and military veteran the Queen and her family, like her fellow citizens, endured the attacks made […]
pferguson | April 4, 2020
Doing Their Bit Not every night do I find what I seek. Searching through the records of the Canadian Directorate of History and Ancestry, to find the actions of earlier times to help for today, is a lengthy process. One though that I am only too happy to plow through. (I have always meant to […]
pferguson | April 3, 2020
Today Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on Me (1972)…Bill Withers …stay safe…enough words for today… P.F. Private Frederick Arthur Bennett Royal Canadian Regiment Awarded the Military Medal For bravery and devotion to duty at KENDDALL SAP […]
pferguson | April 2, 2020
The Math is Staggering The Home Front has returned. Mobilized now to fight an invisible enemy the need is great. Like those who gathered materials for two world wars they work…long days… with heart, dedication, love, concern. During the Great War those on the home front accepted linens, cottons, flannels and blankets to be re-purposed, […]
pferguson | April 1, 2020
I Will Continue to Walk As I walked the stone markers I read their names…ranks, dates and inscriptions of those who fell. I breath deeply…release the air slowly taking in another life and think…not any thought in particular…but perhaps share in a bit of aged sorrow, once felt….now felt again for a life lost… I […]
