{"id":2862,"date":"2015-11-11T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:50:32","slug":"our-veterans-remember-interviewing-veterans-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/our-veterans-remember-interviewing-veterans-remembrance-day","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Veterans Remember&#8221; &#8211; personal stories of life after war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2864\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scarborough.snapd.com\/event\/888004#\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2864\" class=\"wp-image-2864 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/veteransSnapd-510x558.png\" alt=\"veteransSnapd\" width=\"510\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/veteransSnapd-510x558.png 510w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/veteransSnapd-274x300.png 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Whitham\u2019s wife Shirley resides at the Centre; married for over 60 years shares a beautiful love story of how they met.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During their history\u00a0tours abroad, many of our\u00a0Canadian student travellers visit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/canadian-history.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> famous WWI and WWII cemeteries and battlefields<\/a> to understand how and where soldiers fought and died. It&#8217;s in these moments of travelling that students\u00a0begin to realize just how young the soldiers were, often only a few years older\u00a0than themselves. In an effort to continue to foster interest and understanding of the lives of veterans, we teamed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapscarborough.com\" target=\"_blank\">snapd Scarborough<\/a> to interview veterans about life after war at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonystaceycentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Stacey Centre<\/a> in Scarborough, Ontario this\u00a0Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sharing honest and personal experiences from their time before, during and after Service, the residents of Scarborough\u2019s Tony Stacey Centre &#8211; the only Veterans\u2019 Care facility in the country that allows non-serving spouses and family members to live together &#8211; gives us unprecedented insight into the memories of our country\u2019s heroes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scarborough.snapd.com\/event\/888004#\/\" target=\"_blank\">We invite you to join us in honouring our Veterans, their families and their caregivers this Remembrance Day<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of: Janise Smith and Snapd Scarborough<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their history\u00a0tours abroad, many of our\u00a0Canadian student travellers visit famous WWI and WWII cemeteries and battlefields to understand how and where soldiers fought and died. It&#8217;s in these moments of travelling that students\u00a0begin to realize just how young the soldiers were, often only a few years older\u00a0than themselves. In an effort to continue to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/our-veterans-remember-interviewing-veterans-remembrance-day\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}