Spitfire 944, War and Remembrance
Hello all. Where have I been? It’s a long and tedious story. Suffice it to say that I’ve been fighting through my first semester of graduate school and it’s gotten […]
“I Enjoyed The War”: A Meme For Sir Carton De Wiart
Thanks to Foreign Policy, I learned that the wikipedia biography of twentieth century British soldier, Sir Carton de Wiart, has gone slightly viral as having the best opening paragraph ever […]
A Soldier’s Duty To Read: The General Mattis Reading List
A little while back, I posted here on a reading list endorsed by Britain’s top soldier. A little later, I learned while reading Andrew Exum’s mil-pol blog on the Middle […]
Military Picture Of The Week
A tip of the beret to Mad Padre’s Man In Madrid for putting me on to this treasure trove of photos from the Vietnam War. The story of the photographer, […]
Emil Kapaun: A Chaplain Saint To Be?
A big tip of the beret to Mad Padre’s man in CFB Gagetown for putting me on to this story about an army chaplain I had never heard of. Father […]
Christmas at Suffield 2
My work at Suffield also takes place outside the chapel. A garrison padre’s lot is generally a quite one. People are busy in their workshops and offices, and other than […]
What’s With The Generals?
It’s been a while now since the fall of US General David Petraeus from his post-military job as head of the CIA and all the weird stuff about half naked […]
RIP Bruno Bobak, Canadian War Artist
The Globe and Mail and other Canadian media outlets on Thursday reported the passing of Bruno Bobak. I didn’t know his name, but I have seen and loved much of […]
Remembering The War Of 1812
The last time I went to the movies, I entered the cinema just as the new Government of Canada video on the war of 1812 was on. I thought, “Holey […]
Remembering A Murdered DDay Chaplain
Yesterday during the Eucharist of the Anglican Military Ordinariate of the Canadian Forces, our guest speaker, Fr. Bill Cliff, came from Huron College in London, Ontario, with this relic. This […]