"was buried alive" next to "took a motor trip" is surreal...despite his wounds and PTSD, he made it out alive...shaking my head because what an awful yardstick is that! And Trihey facing sedition for pointing out the obvious...the ones who felt they were Canadian first because they supported conscription sounds like what one of my uncle once said when asked him about being French. He said he was American first. I can feel the questions beginning to surface...
Hmmm. I think it was hard to be anything but simply "American" or "Canadian" in the years where none of us had hyphenated identities. It was a little suspect.
My aunt remembers Conor as a charming, elegant old man with great posture. I wonder about all those months in hospital to restore that posture.
As for the news item, I am sure his father, the night editor of the Gazette, got it into the paper. Given the news from the front, the human interest page was probably the only place it could go. A friend said that he read it as: "Some Paddy had a house fall on him...meanwhile, a Methodist was inconvenienced."
"was buried alive" next to "took a motor trip" is surreal...despite his wounds and PTSD, he made it out alive...shaking my head because what an awful yardstick is that! And Trihey facing sedition for pointing out the obvious...the ones who felt they were Canadian first because they supported conscription sounds like what one of my uncle once said when asked him about being French. He said he was American first. I can feel the questions beginning to surface...
Hmmm. I think it was hard to be anything but simply "American" or "Canadian" in the years where none of us had hyphenated identities. It was a little suspect.
My aunt remembers Conor as a charming, elegant old man with great posture. I wonder about all those months in hospital to restore that posture.
As for the news item, I am sure his father, the night editor of the Gazette, got it into the paper. Given the news from the front, the human interest page was probably the only place it could go. A friend said that he read it as: "Some Paddy had a house fall on him...meanwhile, a Methodist was inconvenienced."
Yikes on that last bit of early 20th century language use!