the visitors of vimy ridge
You have no idea what's underneath the wrapping paper. It looks amazing from the outside because it's all wrapped up and beautiful and you're ecstatic to open it. So you start to open it and you're all excited because you're opening this wonderful surprise but then, you realize that the person who's given you the gift is watching you unwrap it and you begin to worry about what you'll do if you don't like it. You begin to think you have an idea as to what is it and it's not qui st. But then you remember that it doesn't even matter what the gift is in the end, because it's about the person or the people who gave it to you. Most of the time we end up loving the gift that we're given because it's a gift, and it's special no matter what. And sometimes, if you're like me on Christmas morning, and you get an absolutely terrible/ridiculous gift from eally start to feel like you know your stuff, it feels amazing to be able to give that kind of detailed and confident information to visitors. But then, the honeymoon ends and you start to have those days when you just don't want to be at work, can't bear to stand at the gate of the monument for another single minute and you just want to kick those kids who are climbing on the trenches off the site and back to Timbuktu. But, you can't - because you're a representative of Canada and you work to commemor or what the site is all about and what we do is truly inspiring and motivating. There is one visitor in particular that I touched me beyond any other, one which I will forever remember. He was a Canadian soldier on leave from Afghanistan who had tears spring to his eyes the moment he mentioned where he was visiting from. The tears remained for the rest of the day - while he found his great uncle's name on the monument and throughout the entirety of the tour I gave him of the underground tunnels. It's almost impossible to describe him and how he was. All I can say is that when you looked in his eyes, you saw the most tragic combination of loss, sadness, appreciation and love. The things that he had inevitably experience in Afghanistan were probably similar on some levels to the things that the soldiers of the First World War would have experienced and seeing Vimy, where all the Canadian soldiers fought, was most likely an extremely moving and real experience for him. But it was more than that - I wish I could better explain it, but he was simply lost, touched and yet so full of love and appreciation for what Vimy was all about.
Vimy Ridge Motivation - Bookshelf
Combat motivation, the behavior of soldiers in battle
Shortly after the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1 9 1 7 , Major George Pearkes , a company commander in the Fifth Canadian Mounted Rifles, wrote to his mother: ...The great war for civilisation, the conquest of the Middle East
... as sombre as Ypres and Verdun and Hill 60, Vimy Ridge and Beaumont Hamel. ... their motivation, or the effect of this bloodbath upon their minds. ...Matters of conflict, material culture, memory and the First World War
Whatever the motivation, these structures and places played an important role for ... while the presentation of other sites (like Vimy Ridge with its trench ...Warrior chiefs, perspectives on senior Canadian military leaders
... desperately clutching his unfired rifle during the battle of Vimy Ridge. ... they displayed a disturbing lack of initiative, interest, and motivation. ...Lisgar Collegiate Institute, 1843-1993
... oldest teacher at Lisgar, and was a veteran of Vimy Ridge in World War 1. ... Someone even composed a sales pitch song to encourage motivation to sell. ...Day-by-day Knowledge Directory
William Markle Pecover – Memory of Vimy Ridge | Ian Bell
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