In Texas fields, no poppies blow; "forgotten" Canadians and Britons

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In Texas fields, no poppies blow; "forgotten" Canadians and Britons

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The real story here is in my video.  Please note the AVI version is better quality, but could be slow in loading and hang up during playback.

World War I Royal Flying Corps officers and men came to Texas for flight training.  However, many came only to die and never return home to Canada or the UK.

This video is about eleven of those men.  I visited their graves on Remembrance Sunday, and was in for a surprise.

My mother says in World War II, a Canadian cousin ( a real cousin by blood) came to Fort Worth for flight training.  He then went to Liberal, Kansas, for advanced training and was lost in a crash.   My mother says the kids in the family first suspected Nazi sabotage, but eventually blamed the government.  Wayne washed out of pilot school and became a navigator.  Mother says the kids decided it was the government's failure to make Wayne a pilot that cost his life and the lives of his crew.  Not sure which government she meant.

The graves in the video are at Greenwood Cemetery.  Every other year, the cemetery hosts a commemoration at the site on Memorial Day, the American holiday honoring war dead.

For a roundup of the events of 11 November 2008 - the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, see November 11 - Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day

Originally posted at www.whatsdrivingyoucrazy.com.