Showing posts with label Rememberance Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rememberance Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Lest "we" forget ...

Today is Remembrance Day
Last week had Volkstrauertag
(France invaded Germany from 1794 to 1814)

And we remember:


And their missing women

("We" Europeans invaded North America in 1492.)

And after living in Germany for nearly 40 years I am sensitive to my cohort of German friends whose parents lived with the Gestapo
- in the name of national security!
And how will our children look back on C-51?
Will they see it as Anti-terrorism Act, 2015?

In Flanders Fields

The following photos are from the battle fields of 1944-1945 in Germany - lest we forget: