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History teacher wants
to pay tribute to
Seaforth veterans by
keeping stories alive
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trained in England during
both world wars and
Portsmouth's D -Day
Museum.
In France, they visited
the beaches of Normandy,
Courselles-sur-Mer's Juno
Beach Centre, the Caen
Peace Memorial Museum,
Dieppe, Etaples, Menin
Gates in Ypres and Vimy
Ridge, where they partici-
pated in the 90th anniver-
sary ceremonies.
"The kids got it. They
came back more knowl-
edgeable and understood
it. They have seen it and
felt it. You can't stand at
Vimy Ridge and not feel
the presence of people who
laid down their lives for
their country," McLennan
says.
The group toured ceme-
teries throughout France,
looking for the graves of
the veterans they had
researched and often just
standing in front of ran-
dom graves, thanking
whomever was buried
there for their sacrifice.
McLennan's tribute to
Papple was to stand at his
grave and sing "Oh,
Danny Boy" as her stu-
dents listened, some of
them weeping.
"It was a beautiful
sunny day and I was going
to do this. I thought that if
the birds could sing, I
could too," she says.
While she didn't know
about Papple and the fact
that he died at Normandy
before her trip, McLennan
says that knowledge will
be added to her repertoire
of stories when she teach-
es about the Second World
War every year.
"When I teach about
Juno Beach on D -Day, I'll
talk about Robert Papple.
Olave's brother will never
truly be dead as long as
I'm teaching," says
McLennan.
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