pferguson | December 24, 2021
The bells had fallen…hum, prime, tierce and quint… It was well past Remembrance Sunday. MacKendricks sat at the small round table and reattached each medal to the fabric backing. These were his medals, each ribbon with the small brass pins his wife had sewn on many years ago. How long ago was it he thought…her […]
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Tags: Christmas, Church Bells, Imagination, Scottish Soldiers, Storytelling
pferguson | November 3, 2018
The Great War Poets: The Known and Unknown Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Ledwidge, Graves, Blunden, McCrae, Rosenberg, Kipling..names of some of the Great War’s many poets. Who has not read a poem of the Great War?…In Flanders Fields the poppies blow…Some better known than others. Some poets famous for a body of work; others for a […]
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Tags: 11 November 1916, 11 November 1918, 47th Battalion CEF, And you are there with him, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Armistice, Carrie Ayres, Chilliwack, Church Bells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Craiglockhart, Edith Ayres, Francis Edward Ledwidge, Harry Ayres, Joy-Bells, Poetry, Poets, Siegfried Sassoon, Songs of Peace, Susan Owen, To common folks and kings, Wilfred Own