Grab and Shake
“They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak.” – The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, I stood at The Cenotaph, together with our Head Girl. I […]
Let Us Hold the Torch High
Albert Edward Foster, or Bert as he was known, was my grandfather. He was born in England, immigrated to America, married, and had a family in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1940, telling Evelyn, his wife (and my grandmother) that he was going north on a fishing trip, he drove to Toronto and enlisted in the Canadian […]