RESPECT YOUR HISTORY
To respect your history includes recognizing the difficult parts. By visiting United Empire Loyalist cemeteries and reseaching many of those buried there I have gained a greater understanding of the past. Some made enormous contributions, others owned and mistreated Black Loyalists. It has encouraged me to respect history and to share it with others by preparing 45 videos of cemeteries in the Maritimes and Ontario. The largest of these cemeteries contained several hundred headstones. This week, while in the Netherlands, I visited Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery where over 31,000 soldiers who died mainly during WWII were buried. It is the biggest cemetery by area with German casualties from war in the world. Soldiers' graves are marked by individual stone monuments with their name, service occupation, and dates of birth and death, when known. Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery It was a very moving experience ...