Enough Words

| 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 […]

Men Among Its Brambles

| January 27, 2013

The CEF, Barbed Wire and the Victoria Cross The Great War poet, soldier and recipient of the Military Cross, Wilfred Owen wrote, “Watching we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire”. The phrase reminds me that during the war’s silence, eerie unto itself, the men within the trenches were conscious of every sound, every […]