pferguson | December 29, 2018
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there I’ve chased the shouting […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: Clouds, High Flight, John Gillespie Magee Jr., Pearl Harbor, Rain, Sky
pferguson | September 18, 2017
It’s Better When it Rains We wander over to the car rental to acquire our rolling steed for the day and head out for Vimy (September 18, 2017). This is the first time I have ventured onto the frontier, driving and navigating myself and my friend towards various landscapes of conflict. Certainly there are challenges, such as the GPS path, wonderfully […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: Adanac Military Cemetery, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, Beaumont-Hamel, British Pathe, Canadian Merchant Navy, Chilliwack, Dick Smith, Mont-Saint-Eloi, Mud, Newfoundland Park, Parsons Family, Piper James Cleland Richardson VC, Rain, Thiepval Memorial, Vimy Ridge
pferguson | December 29, 2016
Everything the Officer Needs Every day I visit with my computer and cross paths with a well-known search engine and its equally well-known doodle. Today was a surprise as the doodle has provided the impetus to make use of its content together with some of my own Great War research kept on hand for just […]
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