{"id":320,"date":"2015-11-01T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2024-02-12T04:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T04:58:48","slug":"normandy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_27448_tole\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2015, I went on a 10-day Battlefields Tour and Summer Institute sponsored by the <a style=\"font-size: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.junobeach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juno Beach Centre<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><span id=\"inserted7658\">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. :<\/span>\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/normandy\/from-cemetery-to-cemetery-my-sojourn-to-normandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"inserted8376\">From Cemetery to Cemetery, \u00a0my Sojourn to Normandy\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span id=\"inserted6752\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I created the following YouTube Video that was shown to the students at my school during the Remembrance Day Assembly on Nov. 11, 2015. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2_jAOoBKoc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_27452_toledosfbold0\" style=\"font-size: 22px;\">Mini albums posted on my Facebook Page<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153044630536156\">Beaumont Hamel &#8211;Newfoundland Memorial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153044731156156\">The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153045709521156\">City of Aaras<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153046031576156\">The Canadian National Vimy Memorial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153046322111156\">Vimy part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153046576031156\">Cabaret Rouge Commonwealth War Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153046871691156\">Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153048052526156\">Dieppe Beach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153049509076156\">Puys &#8212; just east of Dieppe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153049536531156\">Pourville &#8212; just west of Dieppe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153049548001156\">Dieppe cemetery\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153050192741156\">Pegasus Bridge\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153050545056156\">Walking from St-Aubin to Canada House (half of the Juno Beach)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153051976406156\">Juno Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153053593151156\">Abbaye Adenne &#8212; Canadian Memorial Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153053714876156\">Lunch with villagers at Le Mesnil-Patry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153055262696156\">La Cambe German war cemetery near Bayeux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153055314136156\">Point du Hoc &#8212; between Omaha and Utah Beach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153055821726156\">Omaha Beach and American Cemetery\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153058176291156\">Ceremony at the Cinteaux Canadian Cemetery in Bretteville-sur-Laize<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153059672391156\">City of Caen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153059864116156\">David Currie &#8212; Victoria Cross winner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153059889716156\">Coudehard-Montormel Memorial &#8212; Polish Memorial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_27452_toledosfbold0\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Three blogs I wrote during the trip<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fontplugin_fontid_408_centabel\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Blog 1:\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153050593791156\"> &#8216;Memory<\/a>&#8216; <em>[written on the day after visiting Canada House<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li class=\"fontplugin_fontid_408_centabel\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Blog 2:\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153054711216156\">Abbaye Adenne &#8212; They Are the Lucky Ones<\/a> [<em>written after lunch with villagers at Le Mesnil-Patry<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li class=\"fontplugin_fontid_408_centabel\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Blog 3: <a style=\"font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savio.wong.wo\/posts\/10153058970031156\">When the French sing O&#8217;Canada<\/a>\u00a0[<em>written after the ceremony at the Cinteaux Canadian Cemetery in Bretteville-sur-Laize<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, I went on a 10-day Battlefields Tour and Summer Institute sponsored by the Juno Beach Centre. \u00a0 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. :\u00a0From Cemetery to Cemetery, \u00a0my Sojourn to Normandy\u00a0 I created the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P46JhB-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saviowong.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}