Remembrance

The late, great Canadian poet Alden Nowlan wrote my favourite war-remembrance poem, "Ypres 1915."

"Sometimes I’m not even sure that I have a country.

But I know that they stood there at Ypres 

the first time the Germans used gas, 

that they were almost the only troops 

in that section of the front 

who did not break and run, 

who held the line."