Lest We Forget

"War Amps"
Today is the second day of a week long loog at the contributions of Canadian soldiers during World War I.

If Ye Break Faith

If Ye Break Faith examines the death and destruction during the First World War, from 1914 to 1918.

Narrated by War Amps CEO Cliff Chadderton, If Ye Break Faith features authentic film footage from the devastating battles of Ypres, the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele.

Members of The War Amps who survived the First World War talk about their experiences in a war that cost the lives of more than 10 million servicemen, including 60,000 Canadians.

The title of this documentary is an excerpt from the poem In Flanders Fields. It was written by Canadian Medical Officer John McCrae while he served overseas.

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

These words are a reminder that the world must no longer ignore the cries of those who died in the "war to end all wars."

Later,
Kenaz

Today in History

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Here's a sobbering thought from this day in 1969. Famous movie ledgend Steve McQueen made a career out of getting under people's collars. He went through friends the way some people go through tissues, successfully alienated all three of his wives, and once threatened a studio exec with a chainsaw. So it's hardly surprising then that some people wanted him dead. On November 6, 1969, it was revealed that McQueen had joined fellow celebrities Richard Burton, Tom Jones and Frank Sinatra on Charles Manson's so-called "death list." The list was an informal compilation of everyone the hippie cult leader had a personal vendetta against. McQueen had incurred Manson's wrath simply because he failed to commission a script that he had sent to his production studio in 1968.

McQueen was understandably upset about becoming one of Manson's targets, and from that point forward he kept a handgun in his car's glove compartment. It was luck, however, and not the gun that eventually saved his life. McQueen had been invited to a party by fellow actor Sharon Tate on August 8, 1969, at her house on Cielo Drive. At the last minute, he chose to go on a date instead, and in doing so narrowly missed being involved in one of the most high-profile homicide cases of the century. That night four members of Manson's "Family" snuck into the house and brutally murdered Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Gibby Folger, Gibby's boyfriend Voytek Frykowski, Steven Parent, and Tate and her unborn baby. Had McQueen been present, he may have suffered the same grim fate.

Later,
Kenaz