Never Again I 9.10.15
In support of MSF’s demand for an independent inquiry.
Remembrance
Weekly Photo Challenge: Monochromatic
Slurry Wall, Foundation Hall, 9/11 Memorial Museum
On a day on which we pause to reflect on the events of 9/11, a day that is seared in all of our memories I have been looking back at my photographs from our visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York last January and remembering how moved we were as we walked through the Memorial exhibit. The Museum has comprehensive descriptions online and on their app and I would invite you to visit their site to read about the slurry wall and how its structural integrity prevented flooding of subway tunnels and parts of lower Manhattan.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil
The letters for this quote from Virgil in the Memorial Hall were forged from remnant World Trade Center steel by blacksmith Tom Joyce. Surrounding the quote is an art installation called Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning by the artist Spencer Finch who created the work “to pay tribute to the victims and to explore both the personal and the collective nature of memory”
…for this weeks Photo Challenge: Monochromatic
Studio 365: Day 53
And the Oscar goes to…
…our wonderful late parents to whom we gave this golden Oscar to celebrate their Golden Wedding in 1986. What a special day that was. Lovely to remember them on thechangingpalette on Oscar Day and particularly my mothers advice to always “Count your blessings.”Rule of Thirds applied.
Studio 365: Day 38
No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil
So moved by our visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum today.
Studio 365: Day 27
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
January 27th 1945.
keep the home fires burning
Photography 101: Warmth – Still in a Remembrance Day frame of mind
Keep the Home Fires Burning,While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There’s a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home. composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Gilbert Ford
Oh Canada. They stood on guard for us.
R.I.P. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo murdered today guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
R.I.P. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, murdered two days ago in Saint-Hubert, Quebec.
This has been a sad week for all Canadians. This painting by Georgia O’Keeffe from The Philips Collection in Washington entitled Leaf Motif 1, expresses the emotions I feel tonight.
The Monday Bouquet: July 28
Remembering The Battle of Vimy Ridge: April 9 -12, 1917
Commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday the 9th of April 1917. The battle continued until nightfall of the 12th of April when the Canadian Corps of four divisions gained firm control of the ridge. They suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Four members of the Corps received Victoria Crosses for their actions during the battle:
- Private William Johnstone Milne of the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion.
- Lance-Sergeant Ellis Wellwood Sifton of the 18th (Western Ontarion) Battalion
- Private John George Pattison of the 50th (Calgary) Battalion.
- Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell of the 38th (Ottawa) Battalion.
To view more images of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial I invite you to visit my post for Remembrance Day last year.
The haunting Flowers of the Forest is played by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald of the Scots Guards who for several years was the personal piper to Her Majesty the Queen, and described as one of the finest bagpipe players in the world.
Lest we forget
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