Tag Archives: Korean War

Remembering in 2023

I don’t remember when Remembrance Day (Veterans day in the US) first seeped into my consciousness. Probably around the time I started school, which makes it more than 60 years ago. My grandfather, I knew, had been a soldier, as had some of the other men from the church my family attended. They were veterans […]

Korean Reflections

They play ice hockey in South Korea. They became interested in it during the Korean War, watching Canadian troops in action. That was one of the pieces of trivia I picked up last month when I was invited to dinner at the Korean Embassy, a meal coupled with a briefing on Canada-Korea relations. Strictly speaking, […]