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Remembrance Day 2018

Remembrance Day is different for me this year.

When I was a child, I didn’t understand anything about war.  A friend had lost two older brothers in WW II, and I was curious about their photos on her family’s piano, but it all seemed remote; nothing to do with me. In my own extended family, I was aware of no one who’d been to war. 

1948-The Higgins family in Peterborough. The war was so far away for us children.
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