Remembrance Day Newspaper Cut-out

Poppy newspaper cut-out

My grandfather was a General for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Army. During that time, my grandmother became a refugee with three children under her care. I remember my grandmother telling me many stories of hardship, of fear, while struggling to survive (including an encounter with bandits, which were commonplace at that time). When communism took over, my grandparents decided to settle in Hong Kong under British rule. 

My parents immigrated to Canada in 1976. I was born a few years later. My grandparents were later sponsored by my parents and eventually came to live with us. I have always been profoundly stricken by all things associated with war, imagining my family suffering during that time, and knowing that it exists in many different forms all over the world.