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    The National Ceremony

    January 11, 2013 by Dan Black
    The stories are written on the faces, but mostly in the knowing expressions of those who “were there.” They are found in the eyes of the wounded and with loved ones bereaved by...
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    0 I’m on the road before dawn, driving north along an asphalt ribbon towards the capital and the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre. I decide to take the long way in from the country, past leaning barns and rain-soaked fields strewn with dried corn...
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    The Haitian Beat

    July 12, 2012 by Dan Black
    There is no shortage of cruel irony in Haiti. Take the cholera epidemic which came on the heels of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. It killed roughly 7,000 and sickened more than 530,000, but the evidence strongly suggests it wasn’t homegrown, but imported by United Nations...
  • 0 The child in the bright orange T-shirt is looking at the crowd; his eyelids heavy over a slight smile. Next to him is a shorter boy whose serious face pokes above the half wall at the front of the orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This is...
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    Historic WWI Photo – Return From Battle

    May 29, 2012 by Dan Black
    Walking wounded return from battle wearing gas masks, August 1918. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES...
  • 0 An infantry battalion advances over no man’s land toward Vimy Ridge, April 1917. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES...
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