by Arielle and Alexa
After half a school day on Saturday, we
went into Ortona for an afternoon of history.
We started at a Canadian cemetery
that held the graves of over 1,600 commonwealth soldiers who died during WWII at the Battle of Ortona.
While
the majority were Canadian graves, there were also soldiers from the UK, New
Zealand, South Africa, and even India.
The most shocking thing was the age of
the soldiers, one of whom was only 16. It was awful, knowing that almost all of these soldiers had families and wives and children that they had left behind after dying for their country.
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| Price of Peace Monument |
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| Price of Peace Monument |
We later walked through the town of Ortona
and then visited the Canadian War Museum.
The museum was filled with artefacts
from the war such as bombs, uniforms, and beds, as well as pictures of soldiers
in war and the chaos that war brought.
There were also remade sculptures of
buildings that had collapsed from bombings.
While it was a solemn day, we felt the impact of war and left much more appreciative of the sacrifices made for us.
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