2nd Lieutenant John “Jock” Low

| September 25, 2014

Dinna Forget Today I have been thinking about one line that a fiancé wrote about her departed best friend. Appearing on the wall at the visitor’s centre at Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial, Belgium, the words remind us of a departed soul and the ones left behind to remember. And then I turn towards a […]

The 100ths are Soon upon Us

| July 25, 2014

Searching for the Great War 100 Years Later “Some wars name themselves…This is the Great War. It names itself.” Maclean’s Magazine, October 1914, p. 53 “Every intelligent person in the world knew that disaster was impending and knew no way to avoid it.” H.G. Wells (Writer) “…an old world of swords, lances and bugles would […]

Every Face In A Few Seconds

| July 6, 2012

The Dawn Patrol’s Co-stars 1938 “Oh, it does look a ripping good yarn!” As we sit down to watch the 1938 Warner Brothers remake of the, The Dawn Patrol, directed by Edmund Goulding, we are near to clicking play. First though the DVD commands and of course Errol Flynn, his eyes watching slightly skyward…click…and the musical score and […]