Monthly Archives: November 2024

11/11/1918 – The Last To Go

November 11, 2024 – 6:37 pm

Published on Nov 11, 2008 My grandfather and grandmother met in France. The year was 1917. They served together in a frontline hospital for the Royal Canadian Medical Expedition. Neither had much use for God after witnessing the carnage of trench warfare. 90 years ago they were sitting along the Marne for the Armstice. It […]

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Journal Entry – November 11, 1995 – New Delhi

November 11, 2024 – 3:32 pm

The Aeroflot flight from Moscow must have arrived for crowds of badly-dressed Russians throng through the market buying cheap clothing to sell for a tidy profit back in the ex-Soviet Union. Finding large clothing isn’t easy, but the Indian merchants of the cheap tourist hotel district know their market. It is now apparent from the […]

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Langtang Glacier Trek 1991

November 11, 2024 – 9:36 am

Published Jun 14, 2023 Back in Kathmandu at the end of the Langtang trek. Before we reached the trailhead, Lance, Todd, his friend, and I bathed in a pool safe from the river rapids. We toweled off in the bright sunlight, glad to be clean for the first time in over a week. My towel […]

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11-11-1918 – The Last One To GO

November 11, 2024 – 7:30 am

Tomorrow I will toast the millions of sad sacrifices of men to imperialism. I also thanked the stars that I’ve never had to fire a shot in anger.< The truce between the Axis and Allies was signed at 5am, but ceasefire didn’t take effect, until the 11th second of the 11th minute of the 11th […]

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FALLEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 11, 2024 – 2:05 am

On November 11, 2011 I accompanied the British and the American ambassadors to the US military cemetery outside Luxembourg City. Luxembourg was a small duchy. I looked out the window of the Jaguar, as we exited from the city. The morning sun struggled to break through the low fog. It would have little success on […]

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