Wednesday morning's first stand took place at the Leopold Canal. Standing in the wind and the rain, my colleagues and I began to feel distinctly uncomfortable and damp, and I started thinking about the experiences of the soldiers of the 7th Brigade as they fought to secure the territory in October 1944.
Wind and rain were only a part of their misery...
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When is it advisable to fight? How does one respond to violence when it occurs in other places, right in front of you or to you? These were some of the questions that our group discussed today as we began the 2015 War and the Canadian Experience Teacher’s Tour of the Netherlands. This conversation began among some of us over breakfast in Amsterdam and continued on our drive to Rotterdam and throughout our day there and eventually among us all as we ended our day in Vlissingen.
In our first student post of the tour, Karter Kok reflects on the inscriptions on soldiers' gravestones.
In the Hollywood movie Hunt for Red October,a potential renegade Soviet submarine commander that wishes to defect to the United States. What ensues is a dog-fight between the two countries to save or kill the commander. It is a story that might or might not have happened in history. Before the story begins a sentence types across the screen "everything you are about to see never happened" and the movie begins.
Click here to read 2014 Teachers' Tour participant Natalie Fitkowsky share her experience of the program.
Click here to read 2013 Teachers' Tour participant Sarah King share her thoughts and questions on teaching history.
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AuthorsParticipating educators and high school students share reflections on their professional and personal experiences during and after the program. Some posts link to the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society's blog, Studeamus bellum causa pacis. Archives
August 2015
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