In 2015, I went on a 10-day Battlefields Tour and Summer Institute sponsored by the Juno Beach Centre.
The following article was published on Remembrance Day, 2015 by the New Hamburg Independent, a small local newspaper in the town near where I teach. : From Cemetery to Cemetery, my Sojourn to Normandy
I created the following YouTube Video that was shown to the students at my school during the Remembrance Day Assembly on Nov. 11, 2015.
Mini albums posted on my Facebook Page
- Beaumont Hamel –Newfoundland Memorial
- The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
- City of Aaras
- The Canadian National Vimy Memorial
- Vimy part 2
- Cabaret Rouge Commonwealth War Cemetery
- Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery
- Dieppe Beach
- Puys — just east of Dieppe
- Pourville — just west of Dieppe
- Dieppe cemetery
- Pegasus Bridge
- Walking from St-Aubin to Canada House (half of the Juno Beach)
- Juno Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer
- Abbaye Adenne — Canadian Memorial Garden
- Lunch with villagers at Le Mesnil-Patry
- La Cambe German war cemetery near Bayeux
- Point du Hoc — between Omaha and Utah Beach
- Omaha Beach and American Cemetery
- Ceremony at the Cinteaux Canadian Cemetery in Bretteville-sur-Laize
- City of Caen
- David Currie — Victoria Cross winner
- Coudehard-Montormel Memorial — Polish Memorial
Three blogs I wrote during the trip
- Blog 1: ‘Memory‘ [written on the day after visiting Canada House]
- Blog 2: Abbaye Adenne — They Are the Lucky Ones [written after lunch with villagers at Le Mesnil-Patry]
- Blog 3: When the French sing O’Canada [written after the ceremony at the Cinteaux Canadian Cemetery in Bretteville-sur-Laize]